Mrs. Constance Shacklock: >>Have other composers pursued military careers? I recall in my youth seeing >>a fetching picture of Dmitri Shostakovich during the siege of Stalingrad >>wearing not only his customary little round glasses but a dashing fireman's >>helmet. Actually, Constance, I think you'll find it was Leningrad our man was firefighting in. Pablo Massa ([log in to unmask]) wrote: >Shostakovich, Schoenberg and Berg (the only cases I know) didn't pursue >what one may call a military career. They joined the army, voluntarily >or not, during WW I and II, and were not but regular soldiers (or firemen, >in the case of DS). ... Others were called up and some, like George Butterworth (d1916 IIRC) lost their lives. Deryk Barker [log in to unmask]