Sometimes the greatest thing childhood piano lessons teach us is that we shouldn't play. "The better I got at music," poet and essayist Bill Holm said at a recent MPR reading at St. Benedict's College, "the more I realized my shortcomings--the things I didn't know and the things I could never do. You get to a certain point in practicing...and you realize that the music is always more beautiful than your power to give it to other people. So you fail every time you play it. But your only choice is to fail... More >>>