Alice Ashley At A Piano (1936).Donald Chisholm Towner (British, 19031985).Oil On Canvas.Burgh House And

Alice Ashley at a Piano (1936). Donald Chisholm Towner (British, 1903–1985). Oil on canvas. Burgh House and Hampstead Museum.

Alice Ashley was the daughter of eminent architect H. V. Ashley, who was responsible for many Hampstead buildings, including some on Frognal Gardens.

It is even more true with less "romantic" repertoire.

Here’s a video profiling renowned classical pianist Kirill Gerstein, who comes to LPR Sunday evening to perform the New York premiere of Brad Mehldau’s Variations on a Melancholy Theme, as well as Modest Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition.

I've not noticed them, but it's a living.

The story of Chris Stroffolino, who describes his journey from academia—writing Cliffs Notes to Shakespeare, teaching Creative Writing at NYU—to the downtown poetry scene of the 90s, to playing in the Silver Jews on their great 1998 album American Water, to a bicycle accident and eventual self-enforced homelessness – where he currently lives in a 1983 Ford Econoline van retrofitted with a piano in the back, performing for pedestrians.

Now this is interesting...