The only "Circle" is the never ending one- pour cause - of love of music. All kind of music, all kinds of people. We can learn from one another-sometimes by chance. My younger son (35) suddenly discovered a love of Baroque oboe-he was used to listening to me play at home with an excellent amateur, and although he loves Trad.Jazz and listened intermittently over the years to classical music, something suddenly last year rang a bell and took him back years, to the oboe. He called it "All that brainwashing at home because there was always something going on" We never know when something is going to seep through the we have loved, almost unconsciously without realising it. Oddly enough, I have started a discussion about this on another List today. I will quote a little of my contribution: How do most of our Listers view the frequent "Crossovers" of Opera Artists from Classical to Broadway to "almost" pop.? I loved Ramey in "On The Town" but not Hampson. I don't like the singers in Yeoman of the Guard using their natural dialects- Thoams allen and Bryn Terfel -but Thomas Allen "The Watters O' Tyne" a "hit" with a visiting friend from Durham, is lovely. Hampson does the most moving rendering of "Roses of Picardy" you have ever heard, but that was a recording of a "Live" concert on Radio Three, like one of Schuberts Leid evenings.and appropriate. I have a great love of all kinds of music, to listen to and especially toaccompany, as an amateur, not very good facility of movement, but timing and sight reading no problem, and some kind of inborn rapport with most people. Hence Big "Johnson" - the Bombay (black cat) look-a-like who follows (accompanies) me everywhere-being named for Graham. Who, being a really nice person, found a minute to write back when I'd sent him a photo of his namesake and tell me that he took it as a lovely complimnent. Doris ><>