Great Regulars: Music lessons, well, maybe 80 out of every 100

of us had them, once, and a few of us went on to play our chosen instruments all our lives. But the rest of us? I still own a set of red John Thompson piano books that haven't been opened since about 1950. Here Jill Bialosky, who lives in New York City, captures the atmosphere of one of those lessons.

Music Is Time

from Ted Kooser: American Life in Poetry: Column 263

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