Time for a Fed Change of Tune

Published: March 15, 2021, 1:20 p.m.

b'The pandemic has had an unfortunate impact on my piano practice.\\xa0\\nIn truth, I have never been a promising student - my musical efforts have always rather resembled roadwork on an overused urban highway - that is to say, not so much an exercise in inventive construction as one in increasingly inadequate repair.\\xa0 Still, for some years, my piano teacher would relieve the general ear strain by suggesting some new tune for me to work on.'