How to Be: Three Life-Changing Lessons from a Remarkable Woman

With these three attributes, you can navigate life with grace and charisma.

About a month ago, I lost my mentor and dear friend, Mary Kogen. Mary was, on the surface, my college piano and pedagogy teacher. She taught me technique and chord progressions, how to break the binding of your music so it would lie flat (I was horrified), which Chopin piece to…