Pitch Perfect and Persistent!: The Musical Debut of Amy Cheney Beach
A my Cheney toddled around the Henniker New Hampshire farmhouse and hummed a tune One after another Forty pitch perfect songs precisely in the key she had first heard them
Music making filled Amy's home The Cheney family didn't have luxuries but they did have a clarinet and Mamma's piano Clara Cheney taught music lessons and could play the piano with her eyes closed She also sang soprano in the church choir and warbled some more while scrubbing at the washboard Amy ALWAYS lent an ear
Charles Cheney labored long hours at Grandpa's paper mill When Papa returned home he tapped his work worn boots but never in time to Mamma's music And Amy kept right on listening
