Music

Aunt Julie and Gabby will be especially pleased to hear that Sarabelle has been entertaining herself, and us, with music she has picked out by ear from tunes on Beethoven’s Wig 2, several other classical composers, and even pieces of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Phantom of the Opera, on the mothball-scented Rich Lipp & John piano from Stuttgart the owners left behind.

Shubert, Dvorak, Chopin, Vivaldi, Paganini, Brahms...

She’s even practicing her scales.

The indefatigable pursuit of an unattainable perfection, even though it consist in nothing more than in the pounding of an old piano, is what alone gives a meaning to our life on this unavailing star.

--Logan Pearsall Smith