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 […]
by Richard Kade – 17 November 2016Certain obvious things about the form on the last page such as the lapse in understanding of the differences between the words “no” and “know” as well as “attitude” and “altitude” tend to yell out at the reader even four decades later. Beyond the fact that the inset photo […]
“HE LOVED TO SING,” said Shirley Church, his secretary for 13 years. “Even if it was a bit off key, that didn’t matter. He just kept singing”. 😉 Arnold Fink was the Rabbi at Temple Beth-El — where Tom and Diana were cantor and cantoress until about a year or so before she and i […]
Diana and Frederick Fennell probably first met in the early-to-mid 1930s after the Pezzi Family moved from Detroit to Rochester. Fennell was working on his master’s degree in percussion at the Eastman School of Music. In his youth he attended the National Music camp at Interlochen (where the Pezzi family spent the summer of 1938) […]
