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I always wanted to learn to play musical instruments. I tried piano, but the teacher told my parents I had no talent and would never play. I started on guitar when I was ten years old, but I was frustrated: I wanted to play like Andres Segovia, when around me everyone else wanted to play three-chord rock and roll songs. I couldn’t find anyone to teach me to read music, music theory, or any of the other skills I needed to play.

It wasn’t until I was thirty years old that I finally decided to commit myself to music. About the total of my skills, back in early 1988, was being able to point to middle C on the piano. I went to junior college and took music (voice, piano, and viola) with a 4.0 grade point average. Within two weeks most of my classmates started coming to me for help, and by my fifth semester it was clear that I was outgrowing junior college, so I went into the Master of Music program at a nearby university.

I took the assessment test and was accepted into the Master of Music program with no deficiencies to make up (and based on the complaints I heard from my classmates, who had Bachelor of Music degrees, I was one of the few to do so). I took voice, piano, and viola, and was about to graduate with a 3.97 grade point average when I was offered an opportunity to go to a summer young artist program in Czechoslovakia. Who could resist?I moved on two months’ notice to a country where I could say only “beer” and “please,” and could puzzle out a few more words thanks to my four years of Latin and an excellent course in linguistics. That was when I discovered something vitally important.

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