May   9,  2020

Thought  for  Today 

Liverpool: “The god-forsaken city,  with a  climate  so evil that no self-respecting singer would ever set foot in it!   It is a catarrhal place that has been the cause through the centuries of the nasal  Liverpool accent.”  

Sir Thomas Beecham, 

Quoted by Harold Atkins and Archie Newman,  

Beecham Stories.  Isn’t Liverpool the place 

where the Beatles began in 1960 – 
so did Sir Thomas 

say this before or after them?  
Thomas Beecham  [1879-1961]

also said, “Composers should write tunes that 

chauffeurs and errand boys can whistle.”