@SharonC Thank you! That is exactly what he is saying. Bummer. He is not saying the name of the piece, just the composer. I have been curious what it looks like. I don’t think he will tell me because it will probably freak me out seeing it. 😳 He is waiting until I am ready for it. I am curious, though.

The actual pronunciation is not important. I just wanted the name of the composer. It sounds like what my instructor was saying. It may be like here in the US. Different words and names are pronounced slightly different in different regions. One of my in-laws lives in the southern part of my state and even he pronounces some words or names differently, at times. Even within NYC you can find the same street name pronounced differently, depending on if you live in Bronx, Brooklyn, or outside the city on the west side of Long Island, or the east end of Long Island. We visited NYC twice about 15-20 yrs ago.  Even the west and east sides of Long Island can have different pronunciations of the same name or words. It is a “You say potato and I say potata” type of thing, I think.

Don’t even get me started with Boston! I don’t understand accents well and had a hard time when we brought the kids to Boston. That was the best vacation ever, though.

That reminds me. One time when my kids were still young, we went on a little vacation and stopped at a diner in a state on our state’s southern border. He asked the waitress for a small glass of “pop”. She had no clue. Then he said, “cola”. Well, the she knew. Where we are we refer to it as soda pop, pop or cola. In that part of that state they refer to it as only “cola”, but we are all in the US. Kind of a little different than a different pronunciation as mentioned in the reply above, but it reminded me of that fun day.

Unfortunately, that was the last fun thing in that diner though. Service was really bad, worst I ever experienced, and we were rhe only ones in there, except for a couple at the counter. I remember the rest of the day was fun.