(1974 – 2015)

Diana was driven, long before i was born, by curiosity. She said that some of her earliest memories were of wondering why something worked the way it did and, if possible, taking it apart to study the insides before reassembling it.

When she was old enough to speak and understand conversation around her, her curiosity only grew to encompass what made people “tick” and, like her father for decades before she was born, as she had opportunity to visit other points all over the globe, she would try to find out what sights, sounds, aromas, textures and tastes stimulated folks in various places.

Although our first meeting was as the result of music, for the next four decades, our conversation seldom was about musical matters. One exception every once in a while was a conversation about a piece originally for flute, Syrinx by Claude Debussy. The notes in the front of the score go into greater detail.

The sound file was from a cassette given to her on our sixth wedding anniversary in 1981 when she first saw the score.