Bertha Hope was only three years old when she started playing Brahms’ “Lullaby” on the piano just from hearing it on the radio.
“How did you do that?” asked her shocked parents, both entertainers. “That’s when they really started paying attention to the fact that I had some talent that needed to be nurtured,” recalled Hope, who has used that talent to become a jazz pianist, composer and bandleader for decades.
