A Sharp Dressed Man

My school schedule has prevented me from hosting the Give Away and Request Program for more than a year.  But Agnes is away this week, and I don’t have class on Friday afternoons this summer, so I did it.  The requests are generally consistent (Holst’s Planets, Saint-Säens’s Organ Symphony), and today the CD we gave away was better than average: Leon Fleisher playing Mozart.  Today, I made up my own trivia question.  Test yourself:

In a famous 1763 portrait, a six-year-old Mozart is shown posing with a gift given to him by Empress of Austria, Maria Theresa.  What was the gift? Read more »