Linda’s Excellent Adventure:

Yesterday I took some of my piano solos to a local music store that I had heard accepted pieces from local composers. Unfortunately I took a whole pile. The owner of the store took one look at my stack and began a tirade, saying things like, “I don’t have time to listen to all of those! There are thousands of titles to compete with…” etc. There was a lot of gesturing and hand waving.

In the end they agreed to listen to three of them. I think they felt sorry for me because I was stupid enough to show up with twenty piano solos in triplicate. After I played for them, they were a little nicer to me and kept three to look at. They said they would get back to me. Right. That’s going to happen.