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.
Wilma Lipp
Wilma Lipp, the operatic soprano, was born in Vienna on 26 April 1925. She sang with the Vienna State Opera from 1945 and also appeared at Covent Garden in the fifties.
She died on 26 January 2019, aged ninety-three.