They Went on a Holiday Cruise and Left Me With a Man They Called a “Problem”

as a dramatist.”

I laughed, genuinely startled. “Only a theater professor would insult and praise a composer in the same sentence.”

“I call it balance,” he said. “Others have called it rudeness.”

“I’ve been called worse,” I replied. “Do you know how offensive parents find it when you tell them their child cannot, in fact, play Beethoven after three lessons?continue reading …