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December 23, 2004
TT: Day remnant
After trying in vain to make some headway on my Washington Post column, I decided to clear my head by taking an afternoon nap. I'd been reading earlier in the day about how the young Gustav Mahler played the first movement of his Second Symphony on the piano for Hans von Bülow, who hated it. No sooner did my head hit the pillow than I dreamed I was improvising in C minor (the key of Mahler's symphony) on my mother's living-room spinet. I felt the presence of someone in the room, and glanced back to see that Mahler was looking over my shoulder, making a face of extreme displeasure. I got up from the piano bench to let him take over, and just as he was about to start playing, the doorbell rang--the real one--and I woke up....Posted December 23, 2004 6:23 AM
