and the artifacts that cause them? Over half a century has elapsed since attending this concert at UCLA. Despite the passage of time, what remains as vivid today was of a memory lapse Miss Dilling experienced a little over halfway into the first movement of the Händel. This was the second time i had heard […]
From earliest youth, both Diana and OV grew up hearing much classical music in the home as well as at the concerts of the Detroit Symphony, Rochester Philharmonic, occasional recitals and other public venues. Many family friends (the Staglianos, Barringtons, Paxhias, Passanates to name but a few) reinforced this background so much that, by the […]
ESM Exam: Diana’s Three Strikes by Richard Kade (to the best of recollection, decades after the last time Diana told the tale)The Eastman School of Music accepted me as a keyboard student not too long after I graduated from Nazareth Academy in Rochester. This was not because I was the most talented musician who applied […]
Diana used to joke that she “always was a bride and never a bridesmaid” and that, for her, “wedding bells were like an alarm clock.” She did stress that neither line was original and that both ignored the engagements that, for one reason or another, did not result in marriage. One such engagement was not […]
