The Postromantic school departed significantly from its other European contemporaries, with the exception of Heinrich Heine's German poetry.

She wrote a book on Romanticism and its postromantic survival called Romanticism and Postromanticism, (Lexington Books, 2007) and taught philosophy, literature and arts and ideas at Boston University and at the University of Michigan.

In the notes for his recording of the complete piano music, he wrote, "In the postromantic period there is hardly a composer, with the possible exception of Debussy, whose writing for piano is so personal and so intimately connected with the idea it has to express."

The look recalled Keith Richards in the early 1970's, but the cut of the clothes - the postromantic flourish of a long scarf or a polka-dot chiffon shirt with a soupy bow under a pinstripe blazer - was as contemporary as any style can be without being a moment too soon or late.