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An appreciation, on the occasion of
his retirement after four decades of teaching
Composer of ten-thousand classes,
this is one musician who knew the score,
forty years worth,
who saw it all and never missed a note,
who knew when to sit and when to strike the key, leaving
whole rooms startled at the clarity
of a sound utterly incontestable,
a pianist whose bench was carved from New Hampshire
granite, solid, honest, faithful, enduring, who found culture
in conservatories far from the small town that never
left him,
who came to work each day
sharing entire symphonies of kindness and good sense,
and leaves now because
the irresistible harmony of such a round number
meant it was time to go.
June 1998