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Stage name of NIH chemist Ted Firth who moonlight as this flamboyant concert pianist. Or at least according to Moe Rocca on the Bluff The Listener segment of NPR radio game show series "Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me," where the listener has to determine which of three presented news stories is real.  
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Stage name of Nnational Institue of Health chemist Ted Firth who moonlights as this flamboyant concert pianist. Or at least according to panelist Moe Rocca on the Bluff The Listener segment on the October 27, 2018 episode of NPR radio game show series "Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me," where the listener has to determine which of three presented news stories is real.  
  
In Rocca's invented story, Firth was suspended from his job for borrowing Bunsen burners to use as a candelabra during his performances. Because he could not afford a real one. Rocka explains he then set up a GoFundMe page to raise the funds for a Camelot real candelabra
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In Rocca's invented story, Firth was suspended from his job for borrowing Bunsen burners to use as a candelabra during his performances, because he could not afford a real one. Rocca explains he then set up a GoFundMe page to raise the funds for a real candelabra.
  
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His name is a parody of real concert pianist Liberace.
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category fictional concert pianists
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==External Links==
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*https://www.npr.org/programs/wait-wait-dont-tell-me/661109520/wait-wait-dont-tell-me-turns-20?showDate=2018-10-27
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Latest revision as of 16:24, 27 October 2018

Stage name of Nnational Institue of Health chemist Ted Firth who moonlights as this flamboyant concert pianist. Or at least according to panelist Moe Rocca on the Bluff The Listener segment on the October 27, 2018 episode of NPR radio game show series "Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me," where the listener has to determine which of three presented news stories is real.

In Rocca's invented story, Firth was suspended from his job for borrowing Bunsen burners to use as a candelabra during his performances, because he could not afford a real one. Rocca explains he then set up a GoFundMe page to raise the funds for a real candelabra.

His name is a parody of real concert pianist Liberace.

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