O frabjous day! Calloo! Callay! My Berkshire Record Outlet order came in. For those of you who don't know from BRO, it's a mail order firm specializing in recorded music and in books on music. I'd characterize their offerings as "interesting music at prices that sometimes seem like stealing." They deal almost exclusively in overstocks and cutouts, so often you have to move fast. Their website is www.broinc.com - or at least pretty close to that. My purchases include: Blacher: Concertante Music; Orchestral Variations on a Theme of Paganini; Piano Concerto No. 2 Hindemith: Wir bauen eine Stadt; Kinderlieder Reger: Sinfonietta; An die Hoffnung; Hymnus der Liebe Reger: A Ballet Suite; Concerto in the old style; Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Beethoven Reger: Violin Concerto in A Reger: Piano Concerto in f; Haydn: Symphony No. 95 in c Villa-Lobos: Bachianas Brasileiras Nos. 1, 2, 5, 9 (Villa-Lobos cond.; de los Angeles sop.) That's seven CDs for about $42. I didn't move fast enough on a disc of string quartets by Vagn Holmboe, but there's always another day. Steve Schwartz