Music lessons: Part X Final — Music sustains me later in life
This is my last installment on music lessons and how [...]
Music lessons: Part IX–Music in the Middle and Far East
Pour yourself a cuppa; this one’s long! In September 1982, [...]
Music lessons: Part VIII–Rockin’ and prayin’
I really had each foot in a different musical tradition [...]
Music lessons: Part VII–the rigor of being a musician
In the fall of 1978, I began driving the seventeen [...]
Music lessons: Part VI–Music as prayer
[Photo: Sufi house Petaluma, CA, residents, Francine in center, late [...]
Music lessons: Part V–Leaf on the Wind
After high school I enrolled at San Jose State College [...]
Music lessons: Part IV–Rock ‘n’ Roll
I want to back up a bit. In my last [...]
Music lessons: Part III–Getting serious (for a pre-teen)
My awkward pre-teen and early teen years were spent at [...]
Music lessons Part II — Aspirations
(Photo is insecure Francine at 12) During the time I [...]
Music lessons, Part I — Inheriting inclination
Kindergarten, I'm far left second row My mother [...]