Dvorak is properly pronounced "D.V. O'Rourke". One of two composers who emigrated secretly from Ireland to Central Europe (the other being K. O'Daly). Joke courtesy of Frank Muir c. 1967.

A guide to how the second of those two composers is pronounced properly comes from a friend in Sheffield who once related that he requested some classical number called "Could I but express in music?" from the local record library. They were unable to find it because either the librarian or the computer transcribed it as "Kodaly buttocks-pressing music".

Fro those of us who still remember "Dr. Finlay's casebook" in black and white on the box, MacPherson is pronounced :

"Janet ?"
"Aye, Dr. Cameron ?"