My Daughter Strengthened Her Arm by Learning to Play the
Piano
In the
illustration my daughter is not wearing her glasses, which is an advantage,
since she will be interpreting a piece of music I wrote using highly symbolic
language unrelated to regular notation.
“John
Coltrane was only forty when he died,” my daughter, whose name is Reed,
observes. I could have taken this as
some sort of negative comment on the relatively widespread inability of rock
musicians to read sheet music as opposed to all of those great Jazz guys who
could, but I’m too busy dealing with the seahorses.
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