exaltative

Updated: May 18, 2025

So exaltative yet so soothing, this opulent silence, this spacious solitude! And for an almost perfect hour she sat in her rear drawing-room, lightly, ever so cautiously, touching bits of Grieg and Tschaikowsky out of her Steinway Grand just dim whispers of music that did not breathe beyond the door. She played well, for she loved the piano and had a real gift for instrumentation.

Leroy Scott - No. 13 Washington Square