Belfast Telegraph, May 8th, 2003
SIR James Galway, who will be celebrating his 20th wedding anniversary with his wife Jeanne next year, revealed his recipe for a peaceful home life.
"I never practise my flute too much or too long at home," he said.
"I learned that lesson from the experience of a German flautist called Ferdinand Bogner.
"When Franz Schubert wrote his Variations for Flute and Piano on Trockne Blumen D802 for Bogner this flute player practised and practised night and day and drove his wife to distraction.
"But the wife got so fed up listening to Ferdinand that she left him and eventually divorced him.
"I ne...
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