In today’s newsletter, I segued from Alexander Hamilton and the ten dollar bill to a fine performance of Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro at Wolf Trap last week (don’t ask about the relationship, you had to be there–and in fact you can be there if you sign up here) but I then continued:

Oops. Well, a century here, a century there. It was Mozart’s 250th birthday that we commemorated in 2006. (And by the way, one connection of Hamilton and Mozart is that they were born only about a year apart.)