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From the May 1991 issue:

Instrument Of The Immortals
Essay by Jake Gaskins
“I used to struggle just to read the notes. For each new piece I attempted, Miss Hodges would have me read the left- and right-hand parts separately, then put them together later. She would assign a few measures each week, marking them off with her number-two pencil and dating them. Now I forge ahead on my own, playing both hands at once. I am reading music faster than I can memorize it. Amazing what the fear of death will do for one’s concentration.”

This essay appears in the anthology Stubborn Light: The Best of The Sun, Volume III.

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