Richard Pennycuick responds to me: >>Both Mike and I would give our right hands to be as celebrated as Gould >>was... > >My impossibly cluttered memory suggested that I'd read in one of Don's >posts that he's left-handed...... Thus this grand gesture is not quite >as noble as it seemed. Richard must have a fine memory. Yes, I'm left-handed and was hoping that Mike was right-handed. Nobility is not one of my basic traits. Richard also commented that I'd like to play Prokofiev's 4th Piano Concerto and the Goldberg Variations. Hey, I can play them both, although I doubt anyone would want to hear it. When I'm seriously playing my piano, both my wife and my dog "General Jackson" go into the master bedroom and close the door. I think it's the General who actually does the closing - a command decision. Don Satz [log in to unmask]