My mother was determined that my brother and I would receive piano lessons. The year was 1951; the circumstances of our first instruction were unique, at least by the standards in our small, provincial town of Ellettsville, Indiana-population 1,500.
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Chocolate Nut Cake, Nut Cake, Poppyseed Cake. Picture from Arthur Lieb.
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I thank the organizers of this conference for permitting me to send a few words of congratulation which I am unfortunately unable to deliver in person.
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Elephant, jellophant, the octognarian
Even on your birthday you're giving stuff away.
Caretaker of Wanda, progenitor of baaa
Have your just desserts, this evening on you pi-day.
I sing of the scholar named Bruno
who once paid a visit to Juneau
to see a grand opera by Gounod
(or was it Forza del Destuno?).