Simple answer: too much material. Mannie (I can call him Mannie because he is the most regular of guys, an absolute down-to-earth delight) and Lenore talking about music and art, about how they learned to play and learned to love their instruments, about the musicians they've known, about Mannie playing for FDR in a command performance at the White House, Mannie describing how painting helped keep him safe and sane when he shattered his wrist and could no longer play music. Lenore playing for us in her living room, an awesome experience that was truly a privilege.

But how do you squeeze all that into a couple of minutes of news-time? You can't, even with the lee-way I usually have for my "UpBeat" stories. you have to pick and choose and cut and carve and leave out so much.

So I think we're going to take big chunks of the video photographer Robin Sarmento shot and put it on the Web site. It will be a little rough because we weren't planning to shoot it or show it this way, but it is just very cool, very dense, very interesting stuff.

Classical music lovers, look for Lenore Vardi playing "Meditation" from the opera "Thais" by Jules Massenet. And The Great (yes, we can call him that, too) Emanuel Vardi talking about art, music and much more.