First edition published November 2005; cover design by t.ART Design Studio; layout and design by Barbara Mueller; Printing by ABC Press, Published by New Voices Publishing, Cape Town - South Africa.

About the book: A collection of musical limericks to amuse and/or surprise; composed of fluffs, bluffs & gaffes in Opera and Concert. These involve Conductors, Directors, Composers, Agents and other hapless bystanders as well as the Author and Compiler - Don Garrard

" 'Anecdotage' - A state of mind in older men where enfeeblement occurs, owing to the telling of too many anecdotes".

D.E.Garrard Aug.97

About the Author: In 1969 the Canadian press referred to him as “Probably, the greatest Bass ever to come from this country”. With that enviable position long since confirmed, his outstanding successes in Opera and Concert have taken him throughout Europe, Israel, the USA, South Africa and Latin America.

Even the most selective program précis of his career, reads as a list of achievement hyperboles or statistical extremes. He has an astonishing repertoire of 120 Operatic roles, ranging from Boris to Bluebeard and Sarastro to Wotan, the last of which he pioneered in the English Ring. His is an International track record, whose common denominator has been global prominence among his contemporaries of the Lyric Stage, Concert platform, Television screen or recording studio. He has performed under the baton of a Who’s Who of the Worlds’ great Conductors; Solti, Sargent, Davis, Haitink, Goodall, Abbado, Boulez, Barenboim, Maazel and Levine, to name a mere handful.

Amongst his many distinctions are two World Premieres:- Brittens’ “Curlew River” and Floyds’ “Willie Stark”; five National, two International Awards, including the Queens’ Jubilee Medal (1977) for “… outstanding artistic achievement” plus a review which summed him up as “Canadian and among the Worlds’ best!” Since 1989, his career took on more of a South African association with guest appearances for CAPAB in Lohengrin, Fidelio, Don Carlos, Flying Dutchman, Tristan and Magic Flute, as well as many Concerts.

A Cape Town review once said of his Messiah:- “…If Michelangelo’s God on the Sistine Chapel ceiling was to burst into song, I imagine the voice would be something like Don Garrards”.

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