SINGING HIS PRAISES

Barbara Isenberg failed to mention one significant grant to the musical education of Angelenos in her excellent article on Lloyd Rigler and the Ledler Foundation’s generosity to the arts (“A Satellite to Save the Arts,” July 16): one to the art and music department at the Los Angeles Public Library following the devastating fire at the Central Library on Sept. 3, 1986 that fundamentally destroyed the circulating music collection.

Since Lawrence Deutsch, Mr. Rigler’s late partner, had a particular interest in opera, this grant is designed to build an opera collection, with special emphasis on full opera scores to match the collection of full orchestral scores, one of the capstones of the Central Library collections.

As the department’s former principal librarian, I feel that heaps of local gratitude is owing Mr. Rigler and the Ledler Foundation for this splendid gift.

MELVIN ROSENBERG

South Pasadena