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 [log in to unmask]