Chatting With Sherri

Chatting With Sherri welcomes; Stella Claire ter Hart is a well known composer, educator, adjudicator, accompanist and who is now semi-retired from her many musical endeavors.  She is a direct descendent from the Italian composer, Tomaso Vitali, and has many other musical family members and ancestors.  Stella is poignantly inspired by her rich European background which includes French Huguenot ancestors on her father’s side fleeing to the Netherlands in the 15th century to avoid persecution, and the loss of her maternal grandmother’s entire Jewish family (over 1,200 family members) in World War II concentration camps, among them her 79 year old great grandfather and the little 7 year old girl also called Stella.    "Discovering Twins" by Stella ter Hart (Winner of the BookView Review Gold Award and the Literary Titan Good Book Award)  “My mother carried secrets and covered them with lies. She didn’t want to—they were forced upon her. Little by little her secrets gradually unraveled and became part of my exi