In December 1983 I received a reply to the first letter I wrote to Sebestyén (left). It was four years before I heard from him again, but during that time I managed to acquire many of his recordings.

After years of letters and phone calls, I finally met him for the first time on a snowy evening in Syracuse, New York. Appropriately enough, it was Bach's birthday, March 21, 1998 (above).