Dearest Mendelssohn,

Much as I love the Italian Symphony, does the Chicago Symphony have to have hammy actors read your letters in concert? It just makes you sound like your travel works are the travel journals of a narcissistic brat who thinks the world needs to know everything that happens to him and that he thinks....

....wait a minute......

Anyway, you're lucky you were a one-in-a-million craftsman.

Love,

Evan