While concerts are on hold worldwide during the global pandemic, we all keep busy in various ways. I have been studying new (to me) scores like Händel’s Messiah, and practicing big new piano works like Rachmaninoff’s fiendish First Sonata. But also checking the translation and editing a new volume of my father’s memoirs, which will appear this autumn, for the first time in English, from University of Notre Dame Press. A painstaking labor perhaps not so unlike preparing a large symphony or opera for performance.