THE Czeslaw Drozdziewicz Memorial Guitar Competition changed its format this year. The new tape elimination round produced entries from a wider field than before, many competitors no doubt feeling that it would be worth travelling to this Polish city for a semifinal but not for a first round. Whûe 1am no great lover of the tape cassette (too much depends on the skûl of the engineer), there was at least a semifinal of eleven players to be heard in the t1esh and thus produce a final worthy of the name. ln fact, the semifinal was unusually good.