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.
- Lazar Berman
- Thomas Tallis
- Idomeneo
- J S Bach: Partita No 4
- Army Air Forces Training Command Orchestra
- Giovanna Giorgianni
- Caitlin Goreing
- Péter Müller Sziámi
Pompeiu Hărăşteanu
Romanian basso profondo Pompeiu Hărășteanu, known for his low and powerful voice and for roles such as Sarastro in Die Zauberflöte and Osmin in Die Entführung aus dem Serail, was born on 14 September 1935 and studied at the Ciprian Porumbescu Conservatory in Bucharest. From 1968 until 1972 he worked as a soloist for Opera Bonn, and from 1972 he was a soloist with Romanian National Opera in Bucharest.
Hărășteanu died on 5 October 2016, aged eighty-one.