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Congratulations on your recital! Did you have fun? :)

I really enjoyed your recital last night, Emily. Well done, and thank you!

[At the close of her wonderful performance, which she capped off with a rousing Romanian folk dance, all Emily had to say - in a quiet voice with a shy smile - was: "I brought some cookies..."]

Ha, maybe next time I'll find my stage voice and use it:  "Attention ladies and gentlemen, I have brought for  you some cookies!"  :)

Laurie, I have a couple of recordings to share.  I'll have to see if I can figure it out, but I may need some help with that.  Thanks for the congrats!  It was a really special moment in my life, giving my first open-to-the-public recital.  I wasn't quite as nervous as I'd imagined... I hope it just keeps getting better from here.

Wow, nice program notes!  I never knew any of that about Leclair.  I actually also just played that sonata at church with harpsichord a couple months ago. 

Harpsichord, oh, I can totally hear that!  I bet that's a great combination for that piece.  If anyone happens to know which Jean-Marie was murdered, and also why anyone would name two of their kids exactly the same, let me know!

Ah, never mind, I just did some research.  As it turns out, my Sonata composer was indeed the one who was mysteriously murdered.  He was survived by his younger brother of the same name.  My guess about the double naming:

Jean-Marie was a family name that had been passed down through the generations.  For some reason, the parents foresaw the need for a backup plan, in case of the mysterious murder of the elder brother.   "Oh no, Jean-Marie is dead!  Good thing we still have Jean-Marie.  And look, he plays the violin, too."

Ha Ha, that must be the same reason the boxer George Foreman named his 5 sons 'George' :)

I have a sudden urge to have 5 kids and name them all George.  Even the girls. 

I new a little kid with the same name as the family dog, Kane.  Don't know why, except the woman mentioned once she'd had the dog a long time, and I figure she liked the name enough to name the kid that too when she got married. The dog Kane then became  "Kane The Dog" to differentiate. I also knew a two little kids named Brother and Sister.  I knew a guy named Indian.  I knew a family who named their kid "Poyan."

"Poyan?"

"Yes, from the Bible."

Can you guess the explanation ?

 

Wait, don't tell me...

Okay, I give up.

coughNapoleoncough

Oh yeah, forgot about that battle of Waterloo, right after  Moses booked it down from Ararat with those commandments.  Those two really shook it up!

I recall reading that LeClair was murdered by his wife because of a mistress (or vice-versa).

Perhaps that was Jean-Marie the younger.  Perhaps namesakes weren't the only thing that ran in the family.