Treasures
My father and my stepmother each just sent me a wonderful thing. My father sent me my grandmother's copy of a piano score for Mozart's Requiem. ("Klavier-Auszug", or "Piano excerpt".)
The publisher of that score, Edition Peters/C.F. Peters Musikverlag, is still around, and still selling the Requiem.
I have high-resolution scans of a few pages linked above, but here's a lower-resolution version of the title page:
I like Mozart's Requiem a lot; people who know me might recall that I named my computer after it! I never knew that my grandmother liked it too.
I never really got to meet her, since she died when I was an infant. She was a pianist. If she'd lived longer, maybe she would have played music for me, or even taught me to play the piano.
My stepmother sent me a beautifully hand-decorated t-shirt. The t-shirt includes a patch which reproduces a picture of me from when I was eight and dressed up as the Rambam for a pageant. It turns out that that was the first time I was ever photographed with a beard!
(It's easy to find out what the Rambam looked like if you're curious. I didn't look a whole lot like him -- more like an eight-year-old in a costume.)
