Brian John

Mom hopes that one day I will continue my piano lessons for years to come  - so I can successfully play the classics and, more importantly, copious amounts of Christmas songs.  Also, she can't wait for the day that I can play some Chopin, so she can re-enact one of her favourite movie scenes from Tombstone - the one where Doc Holliday is playing the piano, and a drunken Clanton is trying to guess what the song is. It goes like this:

Billy Clanton:  Is that "Old Dog Trey? Sounds like "Old Dog Trey."
Doc Holliday: Pardon?
Billy Clanton: Stephen Foster. "Oh, Susannah", "Camptown Races". Stephen stinking Foster!!!
Doc Holliday: Ah, yes. Well, this happens to be a nocturne.
Billy Clanton: A which?
Doc Holliday: You know, Frederic f**ing Chopin