Summary: When a note from professional pianist Joshua Raoul Brody popped up in my inbox, with a subject line referencing a column preferring Flower Piano amateurs to Flower Piano pros, I winced. “I am one of the scheduled piano players to whom you gave only medium-sized shrift, as compared with the praise you heaped upon the walk-ups,” he began. I hunkered down, ready to be scolded. But “I am totally with you in that,” he wrote.
