Sometimes it’s not a great idea for artists to speak to the press on the eve of an opening. Take LaTanya Richardson Jackson’s interview last week in the New York Times regarding her direction of the ...

How could someone like me, who can’t play a note, benefit from attending a Master class for prodigies, conducted by a musician who studied under a piano teacher who was a classmate of Rachmaninov?

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My earliest memories of my father, composer Paul Sheftel, are at the piano. After each lesson, I would draw a small picture to accompany the piece he had just composed for me, and together we would ...