Here's a real "d'oh" moment: Writer in the Sept 20th Entertainment Weekly calls mini-CDs a "truly original idea" despite the fact that EPs have been around for at least four decades and that the mini-CD name itself at least one decade.
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Retired e-mail sig file:
Violinist Bauer-Lechner on Mahler:
"The first thing he composed on paper at the
age of six was a polka, to which he added a
funeral march as an introduction."