About Katharine Lay or Ley!

TRIBULATIONS OF A PROGRAMME PRINTER:

 A PLAY IN INTERMINABLE ACTS

SCENE ONE: The printed programme for the GSO November concert is being prepared.

PROGRAMME PRINTER (Me): How does our soloist spell her name?

MY GOOD LADY: With an ‘A’.

(PP writes ‘Katherine Lay’.)

SCENE TWO: Later

(Phone call from COMMITTEE MEMBER:)

CM: It’s not an ‘A’; it’s an ‘E’.

(PP writes ‘Katherine Ley’)

SCENE THREE: Later again

(Second phone call from COMMITTEE MEMBER:)

CM: “It’s not an ‘E’; it’s an ‘A’.

PP: But you said...

CM: Shut up. The other E.

(PP writes ‘Katharine Ley’)

SCENE FOUR: Later yet

(Phone call from LOCAL MUSICAL PEDANT:)

LMP: Dvorak has an accent.

PP: He would have. He’s Czech.

LMP: Don’t be facetious. His name is written with an accent.

PP: Not in my font it’s not.

LMP: Deal with it.

So, in the programme, it’s the GSO, 

with soloist Katharine Lay, 

playing Dvorak’s Cello Concerto in B minor, (complete with accents) 

at Grimsby Minster on Saturday, November 30th. at 3:30 p.m.

SCENE FIVE: Even later

(A second phone call from LMP:)

LMP: ‘‘Cello’ is an abbreviation of ‘violoncello’, so it needs an apostrophe at the beginning. 

PP: ******* off.

EXEUNT OMNES. (The End!)