Self’s mother attended Curtis as an 11-year-old who had never, ever left the Philippines before.
So when she reads the below passage in My Antonia, she is practically in tears:
They found he had absolute pitch, and a remarkable memory. As a very young child he could repeat, after a fashion, any composition that was played for him. No matter how many wrong notes he struck, he never lost the intention of a passage, he brought the substance of it across by irregular and astonishing means. He wore his teachers out. He could never learn like other people, never acquired any finish.
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
Kanlaon 