Indiana Canticle

Indiana Canticle is a set of autobiographical essays that resemble snapshots from my memory. Each chapter is an isolated event which allows the reader to glimpse my childhood life from 1944 to 1951, circumscribed, as it was, by music and books and the forested hills of Southern Indiana. Though I became a Professor of Piano and Musicology, this seemingly far-away life has left an indelible imprint, even though my life, now, is not so sheltered. The observations that I learned to make of people and places still have an impact on me, though I sometimes long for the simplicity of my early life.