RaPayre can pronounce it Rapparree 'til those cows of Ed's come home. But since all I had to go by was spelling until I was adopted by MOM, it is firmly imprinted in my mind as RaPayre.

Not wanting to insult him, however, by mispronouncing his moniker, I just think of him as "sh*t-for-brains."   




On to bigger and better things. If you are not envious to learn that I just returned home from a performance of the "Alumni of the Yale Men's Russian Chorus," you should be. Mudcat's own Charlie Baum is a member - that's how I learned they were coming to Duke Chapel in Durham.

I'm still thrilling to music!