The human brain can soften as a result of incessant listening to music with an intent to commit prose.

- Donal Henahan

Real folk music long ago went to Nashville and left no known survivors.

- Donal Henahan

[Rubinstein was] a fountain from which music spouted, not a recitalist.

- Donal Henahan

Next to the writer of real estate advertisements, the autobiographer is the most suspect of prose artists.

- Donal Henahan

Miss Petrowska,an excellent pianist, held the audience transfixed with Chou Wen-chung’s work. Miss Petrowska was coolness itself in getting the hardw…

- Donal Henahan

The irrepressible spirit that made his playing seem like good conversation is the Rubinstein legacy for pianists, if they can pick up their heads fro…

- Donal Henahan

On the subject of wild mushrooms, it is easy to tell who is an expert and who is not: The expert is the one who is still alive.

- Donal Henahan

Pianists of extraordinary talent, such as Christina Petrowska,spend a large part of their early lives perfecting technique…Miss Petrowska,a Canadian …

- Donal Henahan

The more disastrous the mishaps the simpler the reviewing task.

- Donal Henahan