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Finding this old classic music on YouTube was a serendipity story at midnight tonight. I was earlier thinking about my proclivity for hunting down the Latin etymology for Spanish language words when I was a student in a Conversational Spanish course at the Community College of Rhode Island.  This research was much more difficult in the mid 70s long  before the wonders of the Internet.  Anyway tonight this thought just popped into my mind: what is the etymology of the Spanish word for butter? Indirectly I arrived at a Slavic word " smetana". It recalled my times listening  to my retired radio announcer father's classic music collection in our home 's basement apartment. I thought the composer " Smetana" and turned to YouTube to listen to a work of his that I had not heard for years, had last heard on the  Rutherglen Ave. house in Cranston Rhode Island. A Proustian moment. " My Country" was just heart warming and beautiful! My father's radio name for many years at the Providence Journal owned radio station WEAN was " Don Rogers"  locally a celebrity for his late night " Dream Time" program and sentimental poetry reading  which brought  him a collection of devoted fan mail that I still possess in my  Randall Manor, Cranston apartment closet. His wife Janet , the mother of " The Nine of Us" was sometimes comical resentful of it: " You would do that job for nothing which is what you earn, wouldn't you?"Now the TRUE ARTIST in our Pop could only answer " Yes. Dear!". At Pop' funeral he got a final applause from the" audience" for" a great show!". NOTE: the name " Smetana" is connected to a Slavic word for sour milk or cheese.