Peter Henderson, who frequently plays keyboards with the SLSO, was looking for a piano to practice on the other day. But since the featured soloist this weekend, Louis Lortie, was toiling away at Chopin's First Piano Concerto in the Green Room, Peter had to bide his time before he could work on his part in Barber's Essay No. 1.
"But Peter," I said, "Rachmaninoff practiced on a cardboard
keyboard on the ship to
