Chapters include The World of Charles Dickens; The Poetry of Robert Frost; Reading Anna Karenina; The Shock of the New: Art in the 20th Century; “I’m John Ford. I make westerns”; From the Calliope to the Mighty Wurlitzer: Definitely not the Church Organ; Debussy’s Corner of Paris 1908; Debussy and the Ghost of Old Klingsor; Unveiling Debussy’s Piano Preludes, Book I; two autobiographical essays: Teacher; and How I Came to Canada.