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A Few Minutes with Stephen Hough, Virtuoso Pianist and... Novelist?

Stephen Hough, equally adept at the keyboards of the piano and the PC. Photo by Mark Satola.
Stephen Hough, equally adept at the keyboards of the piano and the PC. Photo by Mark Satola.

Stephen Hough, in northeast Ohio to perform Mendelssohn's Piano Concerto No. 1 with the Cleveland Orchestra, stopped in for a chat with WCLV's Bill O'Connell about Mendelssohn, music and his novel,  The Final Retreat, which tells the startling story of a middle-aged priest coming to grips with the forces that threaten to tear his life apart.