I started piano lessons when I was five, with my mother, and the
first piece I learned to play well enough to play for people was a
simple version of 'Oh We Sail the Ocean Blue' from HMS Pinafore.  But
the first piece that truly inspired me was Liszt's 'Les Preludes' on an
early LP.  I don't remember who played it.  But I remember getting it
for Christmas and spending the rest of the holiday listening to it and
-- a weird memory even now after sixty years -- eating Nabisco's Wheat
Thins out of the box.  When I smell Wheat Thins I think of Liszt.:-)

Scott Morrison

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