Music For Maternity

Montreal neurologist Michael Rasminsky started to play piano when he was 4 or 5. “As a kid, I had wonderful music instruction — I learned about harmony and counterpoint — and terrible piano instruction,” he recalled. When he was 13, he stopped taking lessons but continued to study on his own. As an undergraduate at the University of Toronto, he wrote a musical with David Helwig, who would go on to become a prolific poet, novelist and essayist and be awarded the Order of Canada. Read more here…