"...Scorers are paid $17 an hour, with time and a half if they work more than 40 hours a week. Verner said he has never put in more than an 11-hour day during a testing period, with breaks for meals and other relaxation. He estimates that he has read 4,000 essays, usually with the stereo playing classical music -- Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 21 in C is a favorite -- or Gordon Lightfoot for an energy boost...."

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Ah sigh He has a great taste in music. I am very partial to Elvira Madigan myself and like most of the Mozart's Kirchels that I have heard ,and not surprisingly especially K191
http://www.musicman.com/eb2/elvira.jpg
since I have now done some googling I half to tell you that as far as I can find out "Kirchel"
refers to Adolf Kirchel who I assume was the gentleman responsible at some stage for cataloguing Mozart's prolific output.If Annie or anybody knows better please do spout forth.
John Fowles
With your magnificent outpouring
Of that old familiar story
That's been used a million times
To ease a million minds
from:-
http://www.leoslyrics.com/artists/2148/

[ August 01, 2005, 10:24: Message edited by: johnfowles ]

Yep. You hit the nail on the head. Classical announcers often abreviate it to simply "K". "Mozart's Sonata In D, K 576".