I certainly saw Burt Bachrach conduct Marlene Dietrich in Concert at the Edinburgh Festival, 1964 (Lyceum Theatre - late night) and at the Queen's Theatre - where else? - Shaftesbury Avenue, a couple of months later.   Lordy knows what was going on between them, off-stage, but Marlene's closing comments spoke of her dedication to him:    "I wish, too, that I could say that he was my composer, but I can't; he was everyone's composer and I can't love him any more than I do now  - and his name is B-U-R-T  B-A-C-H-A-R-A-C-H, rapped out with the same astonishing power which Nadal brought to his tennis racquet last Sunday.    He looked rather dishy in his white DJ and both them were mobbed by a bevy of young men, wearing green carnations, in the Stalls aisles.   This concert was recorded and is available on CD, including Dietrich's comments throughout.

tynners y have to dysagree yn general though north ysnt maybe the strongest-meetyng of mynds. lyrcs coyncyded wyth odd weather of ec happy wyth dyanna crall and wyder clymate of bushysm etc y'd suggest.

bacharach byts:

eryc morecambe used to call hym-probably from seeyng  hym conduct  those shyftyng tyme sygs-
burt baccache.

bb studyed wth myllhaud yn myllhaud's caly peryod

most recent bb- y have banged on about before -ys 'at thys tyme'-you myss the davyd asperyty-sort of about polytycal clymate post 9/11. shows resourceful orchestrate-of course wryte a  tyghte expressyve lyne- and be contemporaneous yet hymself.

one of my comp gambyts when stucc ys to go and howl standards at a speaceasy  up west-palpable concsyon and bounce seeps bacc ynto quyll. fascynates me how lyce  jazz they are regularly yn vogue and despysed yn between as 'elevaytor musyc' (phrase of valley gryl to colleague) whyle underpynng so much c20 onwards yn theyr orygns. Martle wyth  say  rrb ys one of the very few practyconers of renown to ac thys.

Cheers George,I had expected he would retire after 'at this time' but good toknow he'sstill at it,and that roundhouse is booking musicians rather than noise.