"I'm glad. I wasn't sure if you'd enjoy it." Initiate's joy is infectious and Albert can't help but smile with a bit of pride at a job well done, still playing though more muted so they can talk.

"It's by a composer from my country named Richard Wagner." He pronounces it properly, with the W just barely this side of V. "I enjoy his work so much I've memorized quite a few of his pieces. My father was named for one of the characters in an opera Wagner wrote."

He looks to Initiate curiously. "Do you have things like opera on your planet?"