Kai Czepiczka wrote:

>Last week I got a recording of Cecil Armstrong Gibbs' Symphonies Nos.  1
>[op.70] and 3 ["Westmorland, op.104] on Marco Polo.  This is nice music,
>but that's not the reason I'm writing now.  The reason is the following
>sentence:

This is very welcome news.  I knew Gibbs as a marvellous songwriter and had
no idea he wrote larger works.  Off to the Web.

>"Marco Polo thanks Elida Gibbs Ltd. for their generous financial
>assistance which made this recording possible."
>
>Hmm..., is this just a funny coincidence or is there any link between the
>Gibbs family and "Elida Gibbs Ltd."? Just curiosity again...

Wouldn't surprise me in the least.  Wouldn't put me off, either.

Steve Schwartz