Steve Schwartz reminds us there is such a thing as birthright:
>I would consider Korngold Viennese and Rozsa Hungarian, as far as their
>music went.
A few years ago I was at a conference in Rio de Janeiro. The Copocabana
Hotel had photographs of famous guests in the rooms in which they had
stayed. My room had a photo of "American composer Igor Stravinsky".
I smiled a lot -- but maybe that was just Rio!
Tim Mahon
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