The program was to include a Bach cantata,
her favorite piece from Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade,
and for the first time ever, a student composition, a
Concerto, by a precociously talented fellow student
named Martin Chen. “My dear,” the letter ran, “I have to tell you that your sister Gwen has offended
your father very much. "Evidently he could not destroy these
children of his. The girl wished that she had come afoot, despite the knowledge that she would
have suffered many inconveniences, accidental and intentional jostling,
insolence and ribald jest. With such
qualifications as she possessed, two chief channels of employment lay open, and
neither attracted her, neither seemed really to offer a conclusive escape from that
subjection to mankind against which, in the person of her father, she was
rebelling. Its very
calmness was frightful. And then scratched it out and wrote instead,
“Gérard”.
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