"Certainly, some appreciation of music could occur in hearing only the instantaneous succession of the present of a piece of music, the beauty lying in the isloated sound or sounds and their qualities. But, how much more beautiful when memory is present to disrupt the stagnancy of nows by 'gathering to its fold the suspended and wandering tonalities of the past.*' It is through memory that music has shape, [some stange reflection of] symmetry, design, movement, tonality, progression, digression, surprise, and fulfillment. Developed musical memory is essential to fully appreciate the resonance of classical music and yet, for many, it is one of the most elusive forms of memory. Being in a class which leads one by the hand through music is infinitely valuable in developing this process of learning to listen and to remember. I like to imagine that all I, and all those able to participate in such an experience, will discover (or continue to discover) in their own musical minds, 'something as endurable.'"

*Correlation with Speak, Memory, by Vladimir Nabakov: "I witness with pleasure the supreme achievement of memory, which is the masterly use it makes of innate harmonies when gathering to its fold the suspended and wandering tonalities of the past. I like to imagine, in consummation and resolution of those jangling chords, something as endurable...."

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