Monthly Archiv: November, 2011

November 25th 2011

Along with the VT Block Diagram (November 24th entry), Geoff also sent me another document concerning the’infamous’ erasure of Handel’s Messiah around the same time. Apparently the department thought that it had been electronically edited (producing a /ED), and that these were the masters. But it had been cut edited by Roger White and, although edited, they were all that there was.

MessiahRelease
To read the newspaper clipping with greater ease, here is an enlargement.

messiahclip

November 24th 2011

Pete Christy has just sent me his copy of this ‘document’ from the 1970s, which prompted Geoff Higgs to rescan the original – below.

 

VT_BlockDiag

 

 

While we’re at it, here is a little Christmas Quiz for you all to ponder over, supplied by Geoff Taylor:-

SRE1980

 

 

and the answers were:-

SRE-Bd-1980_2-As