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• A musician of more ambition than talent composed an elegy at the death of composer Edward MacDowell.
  She played the elegy for the pianist Josef Hoffman, then asked his opinion....
• Around the turn of this century, a composer named Camille Saint-Saens wrote a satirical zoological-fantasy called "Le Carnaval des Animaux.
  Aside from one movement of this piece, "The Swan", Saint-Saens didn't allow this work to be published or even performed until a year had elapsed after his death....
• I have been told that a young would-be composer wrote to Mozart, asking advice as to how to compose a symphony.
  Mozart responded that a symphony was a complex and demanding form and that it would be better to start with something simpler....
• Seems George was playing his usual eighteen holes on Saturday afternoon.
  Teeing off from the 17th, he sliced into the rough over near the edge of the fairway....
• Nobert Weiner was the subject of many dotty professor stories.
  Weiner was, in fact, very absent minded. The following story is told about him...
• The teacher asked three boys to write an essay. She said, "Write on what you would do if you had a million dollars, and bring it in tomorrow.
  So the next day the three little boys came in. She said to the first boy, "Percy, this is a nice essay on what you'd do with a million dollars....
• Think you, if Laura had been Petrarch's Wife, he would have written Sonnets all his life? -- Byro