William Aide is widely known as a solo pianist - Chopin and Liszt are specialties. Here he writes about music and the life that informs it, about family, friends and fellow-musicians, about Alberto Guerrero, Glenn Gould, Margaret Avison, Tomson Highway. He writes too about the love of art and the ravages of depression. He even tells you how to play Respighi with an empty cigarette package. This is a story told with sensitivity and infections enthousiasm.
