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 »
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