This blog will post at 5:30p, Mountain time, August 24, 2025, and at 7p June and I with our son David will do a piano concert at YMCA of the Rockies as I mentioned last Monday. One of the pieces I will play is “Theme from Exodus,” inspired by the Julliard-trained piano duo Ferrante and Teicher. They came out with it right after the movie back in 1960, and for a while it was #2 on the pop chart. I was a freshman in high school when I worked out my facsimile arrangement. You can hear the real one by clicking the photo:

I got to hear them live when they did a concert at Clemson University a few years later while I was a student. I’ll never forget their introduction. They said something like, “We know that you all want to know, you know, who’s who.” Then they paused, and one of them said:

We are Ferrante and Teicher.

Think about it. At our concert tonight, everyone will know who is Bob, June and David. They can have their favorite pianist. Not at that Ferrante and Teicher concert. Neither could try to upstage the other for his own glory since we didn’t know which was Ferrante and which was Teicher. It was the epitome of Paul’s instruction to the Philippians:

Therefore if there is any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any affection and mercy, fulfill my joy by being like-minded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind. Let nothing be done through selfish ambition or conceit, but in lowliness of mind let each esteem others better than himself. Let each of you look out not only for his own interests, but also for the interests of others. (Philippians 2.1 – 4, NKJV)

PS Here we are in the Estes Park News, August 22 edition, page 34:

PPS The event was livestreamed via FaceBook, and you can see the saved video here: https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1C2yNS23cE/

The music starts about 2:20 in. You can only see the piano. You can hear our introductions but not see us since we’re across the stage from the piano.