As her son finishes high school and prepares to leave for college, Michelle Cruz Gonzales looks back on his early years as a pianist and anticipates a future without the sound of his playing filling the house.
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Bracing for the Silence of an Empty Nest
As her son finishes high school and prepares to leave for college, Michelle Cruz Gonzales looks back on his early years as a pianist and anticipates a future without the sound of his playing filling the house.
Bracing for the Silence of an Empty Nest
In this personal essay, as her son finishes high school and prepares to leave for college, Michelle Cruz Gonzales looks back on his early years as a pianist, and anticipates a future without the sound of his playing.
Shelved: Bill Evans’ Loose Blues
An album that took five months to record sat in the vault for 20 years before finally getting pressed to vinyl.
The Brief Career and Self-Imposed Exile of Jutta Hipp, Jazz Pianist
Europe’s “First Lady of Jazz” moved to New York in 1955, played for five more years, then disappeared — while royalty checks piled up with her record label.
His Heart, Her Hands: A Pianist Helps a Musician with Fading Memory to Save the Songs in His Head
Steve Goodwin was a talented musician, but he never recorded or wrote anything down. As his memory began to fade, his family found a professional pianist to help save the music in his head.
His Heart, Her Hands: A Pianist Helps a Musician with Fading Memory to Save the Songs in His Head
Steve Goodwin was a talented musician, but he never recorded or wrote anything down. As his memory began to fade, his family found a professional pianist to help save the music in his head.
His Heart, Her Hands
Steve Goodwin was a talented musician, but he had never recorded or written anything down. As his memory began to fade, his family found a professional pianist, Naomi LaViolette, to work with him to save the music in his head.