I WONDER

I WONDER: I grew up in a house full of music. We learned about the delicacy of touch. About being ‘in tune,’ about listening carefully, about nuance and beauty, about crescendo and rubato and perhaps even the ‘music of the spheres.’ I suspect there are a great many like me, who were taught to value beauty and loveliness, and perhaps

BEETHOVEN IN THE PINES

In our cabin in the woods, a 100 year-old Steinway piano resides. My mother, the best teacher I knew, taught lessons on it for over a half-century. Now my wife, Kathy Ann, the best teacher I know, teaches lessons on it. From my book, ‘A Wild Path’, this is the story of that piano, of the people who love it,