Table of Contents


RFT Music Stories
Stories, Parables, and Essays
About the Transforming Power of Music 
by Richard Freeman-Toole 
Table of Contents 
Introduction......................................................1

General Musicianship .....................................3 
$100 Music Lesson......................................4
The Land Where Everybody Walked with a Cane .......9
The Village Idiot and the Band Leader.............................12 
Hit on Head with Hammer............................15
The Sick Soprano's High Note ................................16 
Massive Doses and Quantum Leaps ...............17
A Sad Time Leads to Breakthrough .........................20 
Bunger/Prodigy/Fingering .............................22
Don't Pound on the Piano .......................................23 
UCLA Audition ...........................................24 
Driving Through Union Town .................................26 
Electronic vs. Acoustic Pianos ........................30
Bach Chaconne...................................38
Through the Bus ............................................40 
Getting Better Unaware/The Puppy.............41
The Monterey Symphony ...................43

Movement Stories ...................................47
Cat Anderson's Lip .....................................49 
Kreisler and the Soap ......................................52 
Learning to Play Soft ........................................54 
Pythagoras' Overtones .........................................56

People Stories ......................................58
Baby Mozart Plays 2nd Violin ............................59 
Beecham and the Clarinet Player ...................................61 
Handel and Corelli..................................63
Stravinsky in the Hospital ...................................66
Conducting from the Viola Chair ...................................67 
A Conductor's Insult ..............................70
Swearing Under the Cross ..................................71
Last Night at the Hollywood Bowl .................................72

Philosophical/Aesthetical/Spiritual Stuff ................75
Angel Song ......................................................76
Right Brain Stories......................................79
Holly Bright .....................................82
Hallelujah Possession .....................................85
The Light House ...................................87
Music as Will .................................89
Music as Discipline ...................................91
Xmas 2002/Manifesto .......................................95

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