In October 1927, the conductor Nikolai Malko challenged Dmitri
Shostakovich to do an arrangement of the song after the two listened to
it on record at Malko's house. Malko bet 100 roubles that Shostakovich
could not completely re-orchestrate it from memory in under an hour.
Shostakovich took him up and won, completing it in around 45 minutes.
His "Tea for Two" arrangement, Opus 16, was first performed on 25
November 1928. It was incorporated into Tahiti Trot from his ballet The
Golden Age first performed in 1929.
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