Why call it Paging Eloise when it is a jazz piano piece inspired by “Fur Elise”?

I ran across an article a while back – and I conveniently forget where in case the story turns out to be not exactly correct – that the publisher mis-read the title of the piece due to Beethoven’s ABYSMAL handwriting. The piece was apparently supposed to be dedicated to Eloise.

….and given the album The Week Begins is a musical look at a really good workweek – with the possible exception of Eloise – including a pager in the title just seemed right [especially given there is a slide projector in The Meeting]

At some point in the future I’ll post a live performance of the piece. For now, though, here’s the album version:

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