Walter Meyer:
>I wonder if everybody who admitted that s/he didn't have good eyesight
>wound up as Shostakovich?
Nyet. I was Stravinsky. But I think all the composers mentioned so far -
Shostakovich, Stravinsky, Prokofiev, Glazunov, Rimsky-Korsakov - wore
glasses. In the case of Mussorgsky, it probably didn't make any
difference.
Richard Pennycuick
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