During a Family Livestream, My Niece Snapped the Bracelet Off My Wrist

were trying very hard to erase everything he had written. She was his first pianist, his collaborator, the person who made sure his early work survived. Without her, the archive your conservatory is built around would not exist.”

The silence in my apartment had weight.

“I’m a historian,” I continued. “I have spent years reconstructing that story from continue reading …