Short Story
I Am a Fine Musician . . .
- by Roberta Rogow
- in Don’t Open This Book!, edited by Marvin Kaye (GuildAmerica Books, March 1998)
When Judy’s genius husband goes off to a conference, he leaves a machine on in his lab that keeps bringing musical geniuses from the past to the present.
I could hear music all the way through the house. From the sounds drifting down, I could tell that Schubert was strumming the guitar, Haydn had formed his string quartet, Bach must have figured out how to turn on the Moog, and Handel had Vivaldi and Corelli working on a motet (or maybe the Italians were working with Handel).