What's in an umlaut? What's in a pseudonym, for that matter?

I have been doing some reading today about Eugène Ysaÿe, and came across two things I didn't know about him and his legacy. The first comes from Anne-France Massaut, the orchestra librarian of the Orchestre Philharmonique de Liège, and was offered as a comment on a list she compiled of all of Ysaÿe's orchestral music. Massaut is reporting (below) about a conversation she had with Michel Ysaye, one of Eugène Ysaÿe's grandsons. Or perhaps I should say one of Eugène Ysaye's grandsons.

The other tidbit concerns his grandson Jacques, who is in the center of this family photo, which I found on his Facebook page:

Jacques, who died in 2017 at the age of 94, wrote music under the pseudonym Jack Say. His discography has many more pseudonyms.

As Jack Say he was probably best known for "Brass Bonanza" or the Hartford Whalers Song:



You can follow this link for an article from March of 2022 that devotes a whole paragraph to "Brass Bonanza," and you can read even more about "Brass Bonanza" here.