Rainbow Bridge

This short piano piece is a tribute to my piano professor, Dr. Paula Fan, who passed away suddenly in 2023. She was an incredible person and musician, having served both in the Tucson Symphony Orchestra as Principal Keyboardist and at the University of Arizona as a Regents Professor of piano for decades. She was a fixture of the Tucson community... as well as an insatiable cat-lover. Possessing (or being possessed by) some-23 cats at any given time, Paula was as equally dedicated to giving her piano pupils her all as well as providing for her cat family. She would often post on social media about the untimely passing of one of these friends, usually declaring that they had "crossed over the Rainbow Bridge". Though an animal-lover myself, I had not encountered this phrase until reading it from Paula.

Performer:
Charles Zoll, piano