Hector Aguilar responds to Ron Chaplin:
>>I've just been listening to Shostakovich: ......Tahiti Trot
>>is a "transcription of Vincent Youman's song 'Tea for Two!!!'"
>
>Wasn't the transcription the result of a wager on whether or not
>Shostakovich could harmonize the song in less than a minute? I heard
>that this bet took place in a bar, and that Shostakovich won.
Less than an hour. He did it in about 45 minutes.
Walter Meyer