The keys of life

Being a musician can be a lonely business. Want even a wisp of a prayer of making it into one of the world’s professional classical orchestras? Be prepared to spend five hours or more a day—from the time you’re around 12 or so—by your lonesome, obsessively memorizing the treacherous fingering of Liszt’s “Mephisto Waltz No. […]
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