22. Alison Stewart on Just Letting Go - a podcast by WQXR & WNYC Studios

“When I hear that piece playing, my back relaxes, actually. That's where I carry all my stress.”

In this episode, Alison talks about how she gave up learning the piano when she was young after the sudden death of her piano teacher, and how the rocking ebbs and flows of Satie’s Gymnopédie No. 1 helped her come back to the instrument as an adult — and learn to let go.

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Alison Stewartis a Peabody Award–winning journalist and the host of WNYC’s showAll Of It. 

Did you like the track Alison chose? Listen to the music in full:

Gymnopédie No. 1by Erik Satie

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