Sir, - Was it, I wonder, the fear of the wrath of the moguls of pop dreck that prompted your Arts Editor's contradiction of her own critic's "bucket of vomit" verdict on Messiah XXI? Could it be that you feel obliged to allocate as least as much space to apologia for the event as that spent by its promoters in advertising?
That can be the only explanation for the space wasted on something that was, from the outset, so vulgarly inappropriate that it could only have been conceived by the puerile arrogance of the pop music industry. What a tragedy that Those in Charge equate artistic excellence with financial success. 'Tis a gombeen tiger we have created. Mother Erin, you're raisin' them yet! - Yours, etc.,
Gerald Davis, Capel Street, Dublin 1.
Mr Davis can only be joking. - Ed., IT.