This afternoon I have been playing over the slow movement from Beethoven’s No. 7 Sonata, & some of the Macdowell Sea Songs which you used to play. Whenever I sit down to the piano now I can always see you playing away, absolutely unconcerned by other people’s requests to you to come out, or listen a moment! If you were to die I think I should have to give up music altogether, for there would be so many things I could never bear to hear or play - just as now I cannot bear to play L’Envoi, or the 'Liber scriptus proferitur' part of Verdi's Requiem, which for some reason I always connected with Roland's going to the front... << less