What I've been looking to do with these characters is to illuminate the context of what people do not know, he said. Even if you talk to musicians and pianists, they know a lot about the rhetoric, how to play something, and what is the accepted style, but in general, they don't tend to study historical context. What I'm looking for, really, is to set these guys in context, so that when we hear the music, we understand where this music came from.