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Hello! Maybe you remember me as the ACF dude who helped you set up auditions of Twin Cities singers for your opera project back in 1998. I have a favor to ask: in your family records concerning your dads career, do you have any information about 8 short Langston Hughes songs written by Frederick Picket: Did your father commission them? Did he ever perform them in public? The composer had a private recording of these 8 songs made in 1950 with your dad singing them with Carol Hollister at the piano and the 78s survived in the Picket familys archive. I had a digital dub of those recordings made a while ago. The music for these Picket songs (never published) survives in an archive in Berlin and Im trying to get a PDF copy for a revival performance of them here so am curious to track down any info about them that might survives in your family archives or your dads performance records. After all, Fathers Day is coming up soon, right? Thanks for any info or help in pointing me where I might find it.