More than Words
My mother talks and talks. Often our phone calls reach a point where I impatiently interrupt her, "Mommy, just tell me the short version!" Her stream of consciousness is torrential, and I have to avoid it so I can get on with my day.

But Beautiful: My Life with Billie Holiday
But Beautiful: My Life with Billie Holiday Every Saturday morning, when I was a little girl, my sisters and I went to the San Francisco Conservatory of Music for what we called "Saturday Classes": piano lessons, theory, music history-serious classical music training for serious little musicians.

Lara Downes in conversations with her friends and colleagues about the passions, projects, plans and problems unique to the lives of pianists, at work or at play.

Interview with Pianist Stephen Hough | SFCV

Hélène Grimaud, Pianist | Interview | SFCV

Emanuel Ax | Interview | SFCV

Artists On the Bench: This Week With Jeremy Denk

Artists On the Bench: This Week With Richard Goode

Artists on the Bench: This Week With Garrick Ohlsson

ON THE BENCH: Conversations with Other Pianists: Angela Hewitt: Checked Baggage

ON THE BENCH: Conversations with Other Pianists: Anderson & Roe: No More Matching Dresses!

ON THE BENCH: Conversations with Other Pianists: LOOKING AT THE GOLDBERGS PART II: Simone Dinnerstein

ON THE BENCH: Conversations with Other Pianists: LOOKING AT THE GOLDBERGS, Part I: Dan Tepfer

ON THE BENCH: Conversations with Other Pianists: LOOKING AT THE GOLDBERGS Part IV: Christopher Taylor

ON THE BENCH: Conversations with Other Pianists: Frenemies: Sharing the Bench