>From Denis Fodor's study, there issues muffled lamentations, couched in the
third person:

>Richard Pennycuick, John Wiser and Deryk Barker have ganged up on Denis
>Fodor, faulting him for claiming that Bernstein/NYP did Nielsen 3&5 on
>Sony SMK47598.  They say it was Lenny with the Danish Radio Symphony, or
>some such cruller.

Royal Danish Orchestra, Kongeliges Kapel, to give the cruller its right
name, if not its right spelling and accents.  As for ganging up, we can
all certify, can we not? that there was no collusion.

>All Denis Fodor can say is, he was working from his inventory notes which
>also say that  SMK47598 came out in 1993.  The record itself is buried
>somewhere.

We are sending Denis Fodor a referral to a mnemonic specialist named
Feinagle.  How Denis Fodor gets to early 19th C.  London to keep the
appointment is his problem.  He may need to deploy his enchanted whist
deck.

>Denis Fodor has heard, he thinks, of a Blomstedt recording with the Danish
>Radio Symphony of Nielsen #3.

He has heard correctly, though the information is of dubious value and not
germane to this discussion, except that it is indeed from EMI.  Is Denis
Fodor accusing himself of having confused or conflated Bernstein with
Blomstedt?

>But if Deryk's got SMK47598 in front of his  bespectacled nose, then
>that must be it. He wins in the Nielsen ratings.  But there'll be another
>day, quoth Denis Fodor, unbespectacled.

Is Denis Fodor here asserting that primary reference wins the day over
sheer mnemonic infallibility? In which Barker, Pennycuick, and Wiser [in
strict alphabetical order, no favorites played here, please] may well
specialize? If this is so, then Denis Fodor would be well advised, and
he implicitly seems to resolve it, to get his record shelves filled and
well-ordered, since the mnemonics current in this forum are a permanent
factor in its operation, no matter how the operants may change.

John Wiser
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