MUSIC
- Music-making at home began when I was a toddler & the only living-room furniture was the piano.
- My classical training began at age 7
- & continued through graduate school.
- To accompany family singing,
- I picked up a banjo & cast-off guitar
- & found the notes.
- Later, a friend's amazing hillbilly family in the Ozarks
- taught me their best songs & tunes.
- These are the roots of my writing & scholarship
- as well as my playing.