"particularly fine [...] was the whorehouse pianist Noam Elkies."

-- Richard Dyer, reviewing the Lowell House production of the
   Brecht/Weill opera _Mahagonny_ for The Boston Globe, Friday,
   March 15, 1996 (page 57).  [And yes, the piano solo is set
   in a bordello.]

[Oct.5,'99 update: a review of my performance with Metamorphosen
in Brandenburg V describes me as "demon harpsichordist".  I wonder:
is this an improvement?]

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Father spent Z$2.-- on the kid the cat the dog the stick
the fire the water the ox the butcher the Grim Reaper the LORD
vanquished slew killed drank quenched burned beat bit ate.

[paraphrased from the Passover Haggadah]

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From George Johnson's report *On Skinning Schro"dinger's Cat*
in the 2.vi.1996 NYTimes (Section 4, p.16):

  Trying to capture the physicists' precise mathematical
  description of the quantum world with our crude words and
  mental images is like playing Chopin with a boxing glove
  on one hand and a catcher's mitt on the other.  The
  scientists wince at the discordances, covering their ears
  as they silently sight-sing along with the written score.