Henkels — a musician himself who now owns DeLuca Music Co. in Hatboro — remembers Kesson sitting at the piano, playing through and explaining Beethoven's Symphony No. 5. "She made a big thing about it, she made a story about it, how he couldn't even hear the music he had composed but knew what it sounded like. Everything she did was to demonstrate the fun of music, the beauty of music, the art of music. She just connected, and I know a lot of students felt the same thing."