Teaching and the piano were
Cyrus Panthaky’s passions
Hoshang Dastoor
Many, many years ago, I taught myself to play Ludwig van Beethoven’s Waldstein piano sonata, one of the twin towering peaks of the piano music of his middle period — not very well, but always with much enthusiasm and a strong sense of the unfoldment of great events. In those days, we Dastoors used to live on then-named Kohinoor Road, which leads to the Dadar Central Railway station. People alighting from trains there would walk on the footpath past our ground floor flat and could look through our open front door into our hall on their way home.
One evening, at......