It was not my intention by focusing on Easter the past couple of days to overlook the observance of Passover. You can bet your afikoman prize that if I weren’t doing the Easter circuit yesterday, I would have been home last night watching “The Ten Commandments.”

Though the Seders are past, Passover is an eight-day festival. I hope you’ll accept this link to a mini-documentary on Ernst Toch’s “Cantata of the Bitter Herbs” – a work which I nearly played on “The Lost Chord” yesterday (perhaps next year) – as an expression of my best wishes for a chag Pesach Sameach.

Toch, a European exile who settled in the United States (by way of Paris and London) following Hitler’s seizure of power in 1933, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 1956 for his Third Symphony.