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Letter: Elvira who?

Martin Shaw
Saturday 23 March 1996 00:02 GMT
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Sir: Robert Cowan's protest (20 March) encourages me to air my pet musical irritation - the now routine nickname Elvira Madigan attached to Mozart's 21st piano concerto. Classic FM never fails to mention it and even Radio 3 is not immune.

Is it too late to say that there is now a whole generation to whom the film Elvira Madigan means nothing? Like being told that another popular piece was once the signature tune for Listen With Mother - or should it now be Grandmother?

Martin Shaw

Leicester

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