When the WMFA board requested me to write a musical tribute to Patricia (Pat) Schaefer, I asked her husband, Jack, about her ancestry. "Scottish and Czech," he replied. "Ye Banks and Braes O'Bonnie Doon" has long been a favorite folk tune for me. Banks and braes are types of shores; Doon is both a Scottish river and a lake. The theme is accompanied with a bagpipe style. This changes to fluid chord clusters in the first variation. Because I originally knew Pat for her piccolo playing in the Kalam...