This tale came to us from “Alan Long” who says, “I was surprised not to find this one on your site. Perhaps I just missed it. At any rate I heard it from my father many years ago.”

A well-known professor of music was accustomed to receive letters from amateur musicians asking for auditions and from would-be composers asking him to look at their work. He always ignored them.

But one old lady was particularly persistent. Over and over again … Read the rest...