Ian Crisp <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>A couple of people have mentioned their appreciation of Dr. Michael
>Tanner's writing for the magazine, and I'd like to join them.  Although
>often highly opinionated and anything but objective, his passion for
>the music and artists he wrote about shone through every piece and I know
>it enthused many of his readers. Just like the effect it had thirty-odd
>years ago, when he used to blast high-volume Wagner from the open windows
>of his rooms across the ancient court of his Cambridge college to the
>undergraduate students in their rooms opposite.

I was a graduate student at Dr Tanner's college in the late 1980's.  It
was rumoured that he had a standing order with a local music shop to buy
all new recordings that came in.  I never got the benefit of his drinks but
he gave a talk once to anyone interested in which he enthused about Wagner
and played us Act II of _Walkure_.

Virginia Knight
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