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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