Dear Ben Roth: Friml’s *Valse Elise*, subtitled *Wistful Refelection*, doesn’t seem to have been recorded at all, even for piano solo. It does not appear on any of Friml’s Schirmer albums (Set No. 3 and Set No. 5), or on his Westminster (WST 15008, with orchestra) Supraphon (ST 50646, ditto), 10” Decca (DL 5389), or Longines Symohonette (LWS-207) issues, or on the stereo four LP Golden Crest box (CRS 4200), which does, however, include some of his orchestral works. It is also lacking on the two Friml CDs (not with the composer), one of violin and piano works and transcriptions (Koch 7662), the other of solo piano works (Koch 7512). Neither does it appear on the Shilkret-Friml Victor 78s (C-9) or the Hunsberger Arabesque entry (Z 6562). The existence of score and parts of two different orchestral arrangements can be confirmed. One, arranged by the film composer Hubert Bath, was published by Keith Prowse in 1939. The other, whose arranger and date of publication are not clearly stated, is owned by the National Library of Australia. To those of us who remain devoted to “light music,” there is, alas, much repertoire that has never been commercially recorded. Best wishes, Richard Markowitz