Granted, it was bound to happen at any moment, I still find myself in a state of shock at Lillian Kallir's death.

The older generation is quietly disappearing, leaving the new-age music world with this sanitarily cold and unfeeling athletic world of pianism. If the rule remains true regarding the disappearence of the will to live after a spouse dies, the world will soon lose the greatest musician of the 20th century.

Life goes on, albeit not in the same way.