PROVOCATIVE THOUGHTS: 
The late Patric Standford may have written these short pieces deliberately to provoke our feedback. If so, his success is reflected in the rich range of readers' comments appearing at the foot of most of the pages.
- Auber
- Camillo Francesco Passarini
- Michael Rayner
- Maxwell Davies
- Wendy Warner
- Oskar Morawetz
- BBC Singers
- Robin Baggett
Robert Craft
Robert Craft, an American musician of wide accomplishment was born in Kingston, New York on 20 October 1923. His close association with Stravinsky, and the volumes of conversations between them has almost obliterated his skills as a conductor (a pupil of Pierre Monteux) and as a musicologist.
Robert Craft died in Gulf Stream, Florida, on 10 November 2015, aged ninety-two.