The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto

by Mitch Albom

This one was his favorite.

She is gonna die

Robert Schumann’s haunting composition “Träumerei” (“Daydream”) is a piece he wrote to recall his childhood. Frankie learned it from El Maestro. It features a repeated four-note passage, followed each time by a different chord that changes the music’s mood. It is simple yet captivating, evoking the dreams of a child. But the entire piece hangs on one crescendo, a remarkable sound that follows the final four-note build, a chord so piercingly beautiful that everything before only makes sense once you’ve heard it.