28 January—These days, thanks to Donald Trump’s patently demented autocratic lust to rule the world and bully his way to the Nobel Peace Prize in the bargain, MAGA is gaining popularity all over the globe as the acronym for MAKE AMERICA GO AWAY.

Yesterday—and, regrettably, not for the first time—the Monitor, sidetracked by typically unpleasant contemporary affairs, neglected to even mention Wolfgang Mozart’s birthday. What can we say? Peccavimus et nos pænitet. It would have been his 270^th. In dilatory celebration thereof, then, here’s a marvelous performance of his delightful Sonata for Piano Four Hands in D Major, K 381.

And getting back to MAGA, it’s also the acronym for MOZART’S ALWAYS GREAT ARTISTRY . . .