Richard Seifert. architect, almost took up a career as a violinist when his playing of the Meditation from Massenet's Thais won him an offer of a scholarship in Rome, and he includes this piece in his personal choice of records.
Among his other musical memories are SIR HENRY WOOD conducting the Queens Hall Orchestra in Elgar. HARRIET COHEN playing Bach transcriptions, and GRACIE FIELDS singing ' Sally,' also Offenbach in Berlin, MARIA CALLAS at Covent Garden, and Tchaikovsky at the Bolshoi.
