Aging New York Piano Virtuoso Looks Back
The peaceful atmosphere in the Upper West Side apartment where 92-year-old Walter Hautzig plays his piano amid family photographs and framed honors is many worlds away from the pre-war Vienna where he grew up. In 1938, when Hautzig was a 16-year-old prodigy when the Nazis took power in Austria. Music was the boy’s only refuge. Adam Phillips has more.