Last week Tuesday (Sept. 11) I received the news that Whitney Thrall, retired piano professor at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, had died at age 96. My friend, Mark Russell, wrote this: Whitney passed away this afternoon very peacefully. It was the way he wanted to go. He didn’t wake up and just slowly… Read More Last one standing
Today was the last day of our tour, “Highlights of Eastern Europe,” and there was an optional excursion, “Chopin Recital and Dinner” for which I and 12 others elected to attend. It was a private piano recital for just our group! We were taken to the Porczynskich Fine Art Museum where there was a large… Read More Chopin recital and farewell
I am sure that I have told you before that my siblings and I grew up without television. Oh, it was not because my parents were opposed to it—it was because our house was located in an area where television antennas would not have been able to pick up a signal, and this was in… Read More Family fun