The Piano Recital

Ted Dotson, | Verona [Dotson] Walker, | Maude [Walker] Fortner, Myrtle [Walker] Dotson, | Dennis Brumm.

I (Dennis Brumm) began piano lessons during the summer of 1957 and continued taking them throughout all my years in New London. My piano teacher after that summer was Nella Elliott, the wife of G. A. Elliott and daughter-in-law of George Elliott, a man for whom my mother worked before I was born.

Each year during my youth we had recitals; in the very early years or maybe only the first year, they were at my teacher's house. Later they were at the Presbyterian Church in New London. This possibly was at the grade school in New London, and if so, I can't remember the specific circumstances of why I was playing there (perhaps it was just a "talent showcase"), but if it is indeed that instance, it is the only time I publicly messed up a piece something terribly - the first movement of Beethoven's Sonata Pathétique.

Roy and Maude Fortner

The Walkers - the 1960s
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