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Music Fit for a King, Written for a Dentist

By ANNE MIDGETTE

Published: January 23, 2005

Jack and Linda Hoeschler had a wedding anniversary coming up. Not just any anniversary: it was their 15th. To celebrate, they considered having a tea dance, since they first met at one. But they also wanted something more for their guests and for themselves.

Mrs. Hoeschler, who was working at the Dayton Hudson Foundation in Minneapolis at the time, had an idea. She had recently advised the two composers who had founded the Minnesota Composers Forum. Why not, she suggested to her husband, commission a piece of music from one of them?

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http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/23/arts/music/23midg.html

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