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I got:

Orignal sheet of "Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence", which a friend brought over from Japan!

Zoom H2

Pianists Guide to Repertoire (Maurice Hinson)

Phantom of the Opera Songbook

Pie Jesu sheet music (Andrew Lloyd Webber, Requiem)

I got a mug with poor half dead Chopin's photograph on it. I think that will turn into a pen holder. Somehow having coffee in it seems disrespectful.

I got:

-Lang Lang's Mendelssohn concerto recording
-A Zune to hold the recording
-A laptop which I can also listen to the recording with
-60 dollars worth of gift certificates to the local sheet music store.

I was fairly good this year

Matt

I got Argerich's Bach CD, her new DVD with the Schumann piano concerto, Ogdons recording of Opus Clavicembalisticum, the movie Copying Beethoven, and a movie on Rachmaninoff called a Harvest of Sorrow. I was also signed up for a pipe organ camp and the Kimmel Center in Philly for next year. And that was just the music presents.

More or less, Santa came through, more or less, for me as well. I asked him to get me into Harvard, and while he couldn't bring that Christmas because the application deadline is the 7th of January anyways, he still got me an interview at UPenn for a PhD Program.

Have you ever felt like your entire being was radiating happiness?

Besides that, I was given 900$ in test fees, application fees, score reporting fees, and other miscellaneous expenses associated with applying to graduate school, some musical recordings, thermal underwear ( ), a Canon videocamera, lots of candy, and promises to pay for my Henle order + the Durand edition of the Debussy etudes.

Unfairly exceptional of a Christmas that may be, these gifts are all overshadowed by being with my whole family in Paris. At the same time, however, even that seems far less significant compared to hearing from UPenn.

You are most definitely radiating! Terrific news, Daniel.

I got a piano lamp, and a nice pad for the hard-cornered wood bench of my new RX-2.

I've only had one thing on my wish list for the last 10 years, and once again, I was stiffed by Santa. Mary J. Blige. It appears that I'll have to go out and take matters into my own hands!

Yes I have. But only after I started to sweat profusely did I realize that the seat I was sitting on was right in front of a radiator.