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[Elmer Elevator <bobmer@javanet.com>]

The Miss America Pageant was broadcast Saturday night, and featured a
four-minute segment of a Beethoven piano concerto -- quite good! -- by
Miss California, a top-honors biochemistry student at Stanford
University. I think she came in fourth. Miss Hawaii, who performed an
interpretive Hula in evening gown, won.

The Pageant reminded me of these words of keyboard wisdom I've seen on
several bumpers:

"Accordians don't play 'Lady of Spain'. People do."

Bob / Elmer

Quick Off-Topic Plug, but dear to my heart:

This is the Kurt Weill Centenary. It's the best chance in our lifetimes
to be near a great deal of live performance of Weill's incredible range
of remarkable music in classical, opera, choral and musical theater. I
cannot urge all of you highly enough to track these performances down
and attend.

The best place to start is the Kurt Weill Foundation at www.kwf.org

Their Centenary Kurt Weill Newsletter issue was just published, is free
(they're rolling in dough from royalties from "Mack the Knife,"
"September Song," "Alabama Song," "Surabaya Johnny," "Pirate Jenny,"
etc.) and if you can still get your hands on one, will be (IMHO) a very
valued collector's item. For a pleasant change, it's not full of Bad
Stuph about Nasty Old Bertholt Brecht.