 An hour-long radio program about Frey's life and work, hosted by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Studs Terkel, was broadcast on "The Studs Terkel Program", in 1997 throughout the United States.Frey studied piano for many years in Chicago as a protégé of the pianist, harpsichordist and teacher Gavin Williamson (1898–1989), one of the last direct links to 19th-century pianism, and who was a pupil of Arthur Schnabel, Wanda Landowska, and Ethel Leginska.His organ teachers in the Chicago area were Richard Webster and Edward Mondello.