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Previous: Reading and Writing at Home Next: Taking It to the Next Level, Same as the Last Level When Mom in later years mentioned my "piano hiatus" to me it was with evident dismay at how long it lasted — for over a year, I swear she said. But in charting out a timeline I haven't found a way by which I begin lessons at age 4 for several months and perform and record on the known dates that also allows for that long a hiatus. Then again, there's no record of when I started lessons, so that's also a bit up in the air. My best guess is that the first run of lessons was some time in the fall of 1962, when I was about four-and-a-half, and stopped just after a May 5, 1963 studio recital at Mrs. Kent's Congregational Church when I played three pieces: a Burgmüller "Study" (not the Ballade ?), Ellmenreich's Spinning Song (harder even than the Ballade) as well as some piece called Guitar that I don't remember at all, isn't in the Thomps...