Chautauqua 2017
Early on the morning of June 28, I walked down to Lake Chautauqua and watched the sun rise. The peace there was …
Granados’ Goyescas
The music of Enrique Granados, a Spanish composer, has fascinated me since my teens, when my piano teacher assigned his “Intermezzo” from …
Sing for Your Life
Twenty-five years of striving for the goals of the MusicLink Foundation prepared me for a riveting book, Sing for Your Life: a Story of Race, …
Garden Inspirations
Quail Ridge Garden Club has inspired me to plant gardens and play piano. This year I was invited to perform a musical review …
Piano for Patrols
Crosspointe Elementary School is just four minutes away from our home in Boynton Beach. It’s a Title 1 school, where over 90% of …
Musical Romances
Clara Wieck was only nine years old when Robert Schumann came to study piano with her father. She was sixteen when they …
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Last Friday evening Leslie, David and I attended an hour-long jazz tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. by Zach Bartholomew’s Trio at the Coral …
Why I love Classical Music
What does the term “classical music” mean to you? Bach? Beethoven? the Beatles? To me, classical music means the great works of Haydn, …
Rice 50th Reunion
My 50th Rice Reunion began with a joyous re-uniting of old friends at the lovely home of Patti Lewis Everett, whom I first met …
Three Days in Paris
Paris was resplendent when we first saw it in June 1967 and again in 1986 and 1994. Those broad avenues lined with …