Richard Pennycuick ([log in to unmask]) wrote: >Deryk Barker wrote: > >>... Menuhin was as English as Mackerras - he was born and >>brought up in the US. > >Mackerras was born in Schenectady NY, was brought up in Australia because >his family is and was Australian. So hands off!! Richard I, as a Canadian, would be the last person to attempt to hijack Sir Charles for the US...:-) Perhaps I should have said that Menuhin was "no more English" than Mackerras. I realised afterwards that my mild attempt at humour could be read two ways. Deryk Barker [log in to unmask]