Going back a couple of days...
I was looking through some music in the hope that I still had my score to the Five Pieces for Orchestra. I hadn’t remembered seeing it in a while and it’s just one of those things that I suddenly would have been crushed to find missing. And I really wanted to look at it. But there it was, in all its glory...complete with a brown embossed DYMO LABEL sporting my name on the front cover. You remember those, right? Yes, I really did that to things over a period of a couple of years. Not a whole lot of things, but enough that something or other still turns up with one occasionally.
Next I went to the shelf to retrieve the Dorati album and see what other recordings I might have. I always considered myself fortunate to have bought that one back in the day — for no particular reason, I guess it just looked like a good choice even though neither Dorati nor the Mercury label meant much of anything to me at the time — but over the years this one became very collectible, mine’s in mint condition, and I really do love it.
So what do I find on it? A DYMO LABEL sporting my name!
Okay, it makes total sense that I would have acquired both of these at precisely the same time and all, but sheesh.
