Maine Voices: A different way to say ‘I love you’
As Tony Bennett has shown us, Alzheimer’s disease doesn’t dim the gift of or the joy in music.
By Kay WheelerSpecial to the Telegram
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My career was music, playing and teaching violin. I taught at Ashley Hall School for girls (Barbara Bush went there) and the Charleston Academy of Music. I retired to Maine two years ago and now have time to write my memories.
Diagnosed with Alzheimer’s in 2016, Tony Bennett still performs, in public before COVID and now at home, two 90-minute sets a week with his longtime pianist at the suggestion of his neurologist “to keep him on his toes,” his wife and son say. A retired music teacher recalls another musician whose talents were not affected by dementia.
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