Lockney’s leading lady of piano ponders keys to a long, happy life

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Teaching and performing.

Musicians who’ve had the good fortune of playing on the same stage as Lucy Dean Record will tell you: she transposes in her head, she has a keen ear for pitch, and she never misses a beat.

And at age ninety-nine years, eleven months and twenty-three days—and counting—she still isn't.

“My cardiologist says I have the blood work of an eighty-year-old,” she brags at the outset of our interview, as thou…