KEYS TO THE KINGDOM: Reflections on Music and the Mind
Keys to the Kingdom: Reflections on Music and the Mind charts the course
of an unusual odyssey. For nearly a decade, Kathleen Housley played piano
with Katrina Withey, a gifted musician partially paralyzed from a stroke. To
understand those times in their playing when disabilities disappeared in a
shimmer of grace, Housley wrote brief reflections, turning to neuroscience
and history for deeper insight. Some are as complex as a fugue. Others are
as simple as a finger exercise on the C scale. Yet sounding throughout the
reflections is a...