On the Keys

Music and Memory: Katharine Norman's Fuga Interna


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Composer and writer Katharine Norman's piece is about aging and memory loss. It comes from a set of pieces influenced by a Bach Fugue, "a compositional teacher," as Katharine Norman puts it. Her mother was her first piano teacher and now she is a suffering from Alzheimers. In the piece, Katharine Norman is remembering her first piano lessons with her, because her mother can't remember them any longer. The pianist is Xenia Pestova. About the Your Compositions segment of On the Keys : This part of
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On the KeysBy David Kiser