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Re: Shostakovich and Light Music!
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Walter Meyer <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 30 Sep 2002 22:27:18 -0400
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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

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