Publisher's Synopsis
These autobiographical stories sparkle with vignettes of people places and pets but their deeper subject is that of the woman pianist in a male-dominated world. The subject is not new but Ms. Montparker brings to it a rewarding freshness of insight. Þä Jerome LowenthalÞPianist; and faculty The Juilliard SchoolÞ The pianist's latest book deserves to be read by anyone who plays or wishes to play or ever wished to play the piano and by everyone else too. She writes about music in a sane wise humane voice in this charming instructive often moving collection. Þä Michael KimmelmanÞChief Art Critic ÊThe New York TimesÊ; and pianist
