From Stephen Bates' People column in the Guardian:

   'Taking a brief break from lambasting Tony Blair and the government
   yesterday, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, the Master of the Queen's
   Music, recalled getting into trouble for laughing during a Haydn
   recital. He said he and fellow students, Alexander Goehr, John
   Ogdon and Harrison Birtwistle, were summoned to the principal's
   study to be rebuked for laughing while playing at the Manchester
   Chamber Concerts Society. It couldn't have been the Haydn Joke
   Quartet could it? "I still have to suppress smiles, even giggles,
   when conducting the finale of some Haydn symphonies," he said.'

Would love to have seen a photo of these four back then....

Bill H.

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