Teresa Sterne

Teresa Sterne was an outstanding pianist in her own right, but her most enduring legacy is as one of America's greatest and most influential recording producers. Her work with the Nonesuch label in the 1960s and 1970s helped to establish that company as the leading innovator in classical recordings. Her mother was a professional cellist, and her uncle a well-known violinist. At the age of four, Teresa proclaimed Johann Sebastian Bach her "sweetheart" and showed such signs of musical awareness and skill that she was given piano lessons. These were so successful that at the age...