Bert Bailey: >A friend tells me that he phoned Gyorgy Sandor on Monday of this week, >on the occasion of the 91st birthday of Bartok's favourite piano student >and interpreter. He reports that although the pianist's legs are very >weak, he sounded in good spirits. Perhaps your friend would care to pass on that one of my all-time favorite (and oldest) recorded performances of anything is Sandor's Columbia ML 4304 recording of Bach's Overture in the French Manner (Partita #7 in B Minor). Limpid. Cool. Refreshing. I was surprised with it on my 16th birthday, and I have always made a personal association with that time of year (Spring). After half a century it is pretty beat up, but I have never been able to find anything to replace it with--though I have tried. Harpsichord versions just don't do it for me. Jim Tobin