KEEPING SCORE

Thank you for Josef Woodard’s interview with Elmer Bernstein, David Raksin, Laurence Rosenthal and Leonard Rosenman (“Scoring Some More Respect,” June 14).

Respect begins at home, however. One shudders to think of the editorial hatchet-job that was performed to cram the ideas of these four illustrious composers into a two-page article. Each of them merits more than that space in his own right, and The Times is long overdue in this regard.

JANE BROCKMAN

Santa Monica