... appearance, as performer and director, on July 4, 1992, in an evening of American musical comedy staged to celebrate Independence Day. A fourth musical written by Stevens, Callas on the life of Maria Callas remains unfinished, but his friends and partners ...

... p and his wish was that he would die in America. Alas, this was not fulfilled, though leaving this world on American Independence Day would doubtless have appealed to his sense of humour. John M Hall DENNIS EGAN who died on July 1 at the Tarner Hospice ...