[In Tuesday's www.sfcv.org, I concluded an enthusiastic review of 10-year-old Kit Armstrong's Stanford recital with what was to be an impressive combination of musicological research and supportive whimsy: "One of Kit's earliest compositions was the `Chicken Sonata,' almost five years ago, and he followed that with `Chickens in Spring Time: Theme and 46 Variations.' He continues to raise chickens, so in the future, once he gets through mastering orchestration, a Chicken Symphony may well be in the cards." How little do we know! Here's Kit's measured response by e-mail.] Hi, I read your on-line review with interest. I thought you might want to know that I indeed wrote a chicken symphony when I was seven years old. It was my first symphony and the first movement of it was performed by the Pacific Symphony Orchestra as well as my high school orchestra a few years back. Kit Armstrong I won't disclose Kit's address, but it's noteworthy that it contains the string "chicken_music." A brilliant young man with a singular commitment to poultry! Janos Gereben/SF [log in to unmask]