He had always prided himself on his musical memory.
He plumbed the old man's musical memory with a few words of a title.
Some of the best musical memories of the past 40 years have been collected into a special book.
"I don't have a good memory of hearing sound as a child," he said when asked what his earliest musical memory was.
The book being closed concerns the most political century in musical memory.
He commented: "We want to leave people with a musical memory of the show rather than a purely visual one."
Shostakovich had an amazing musical memory and could play almost anything he knew by ear.
They also have problems with musical memory, singing and timing.
That brings up a whole different set of musical memories.
It doesn't take much to be flung back into a musical memory.