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)ur cell service is dicey. Fuller disclosure: my good friend and colleague Paul Reisler had invited me down to Castleton to help with some piano accompaniments for his songwriting students. 1 had also become friends with Dietlinde Maazel earlier m the year after the moving memorial service for Paul’s w ife, Julie Portman. Ms. Maazel was coaching these young singers in German diction and acting, including improvising opera scenes, so I spent part of my daytime hours immersed in the sublime music of Schubert, Brahms and Mozart, as w'ell as joining the singers in creating instant operas, from the thoughtful to the ridiculous.
Paul’s class produced some really memorable songs, and all
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