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Attended a chamber music concert in town, which reminded him that PS had said when working on 'Amadeus' that Haydn might have been as suitable a subject as Mozart; comments on reduced attention to classical music by the 'Kalamazoo Gazette'; will soon fly to Venice for a Mediterranean cruise.

PS's 'neighbor' Maggie Smith was at the British film awards; congratulates him for 'Amadeus' being scheduled again at the National; wonders what he knows about James Levine stepping aside at the Met; the local paper has almost entirely stopped running reviews of music concerts; is offering a three-session course on 'Madama Butterfly'; encloses a past program of 'Amadeus' in Chicago [not present].

Wishes him a happy birthday and encloses an article he wrote about the Irving S. Gilmore International Keyboard Festival for the online magazine 'Classical Voice North America'; recommends the pianist Llyr Williams, whom he enjoyed more than Yefim Bronfman; wonders if he might write an autobiography'.