Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice tickles the ivories when she’s not massaging foreign policy.
Her mother was a church organist and opera buff, and so named her only child after an Italian-language term, con dolcezza, used in musical notation meaning “to play with sweetness.” Rice became a piano prodigy when she was only in kindergarten. She uses her art to balance her more serious side, having traded in her dream of a concert career, and another as a figure skater, for one in the political arena, something that was unexpected even to her. “I’m still someone with no long-term plan,” she says. What she’d really like, she confides, is to own an NFL football team.
