Welcome
Welcome to the Pezzi-Frascolla Family website.
For decades before Diana and Ottavio's parents first met, their parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles were already compiling “content” for what would become this site you are now viewing. The earliest image unearthed, thus far, from ca. 1913, was digitized from a glass negative not too different from those used by Matthew Brady when photographing Abraham Lincoln.
Generations not yet born will probably add content to whatever version of a web we can only begin to envision that might feature such innovative technology as to enable the one to experience the fullest range of aromas, sights, sounds, tastes and textures.
Duck Feathers
Duck Feathers One of the first stories i ever heard Diana tell concerned a performance by the Rochester Philharmonic, led by Erich Leinsdorf, of the 1812 Overture by Tschaïkowsky at the Eastman Theater. The first time she told it was to Tony “Sleeze” Rocha, Elwin and me, probably in late 1974. All three of us […]
Passing Paths — Slummin’ at Stanford
From February of 2004 through January 2008, Diana and i would often yo-yo (her phrase) between PARC and the campus of Stanford University. In addition to the spiral banister at the Branner Earth Sciences Building, a favorite haunt for Diana was the atrium level of the Hoover Institution, especially when some symposium was in progress. […]
DIY Music Therapy
Diana always proclaimed, “I am my own best doctor!” On 24 October 2015 when cousin Anna phoned from Florida to wish Diana a happy birthday and asked what the secret was to living so long, Diana replied, only half in jest, “Stay away from doctors, nurses, hospitals, ambulances and all vestiges of the medical industrial […]
Salvatore Mario de Stefano
That lesson gave me the inspiration and where-with-all to play the transcription of the second of two guitar transcriptions by Francisco Tárrega. One other thing that i only learned about a decade after the AHS competition in NYC was that Mr. de Stefano and Diana’s father knew each other from Naples, years before Diana’s parents […]
Once . . . (Part 1 of 3)
Since Diana’s death two years ago, i have only half-jokingly said “DIY psychiatry isn’t worth the money i pretend to pay myself.” This goes beyond her skepticism of Freud and Jung as well as the impossibility of “getting into another person’s head.” George W. Bush may have been onto something when he stated, “In Texas […]