Story time with Maestro: Chapter 2

There are a few artistic endeavors that carry such "mystique" as to entice the imaginations of the avocational performer.

After some five-and-a-half decades of actually having some recognizable successes, I'm beginning to re-visit those events...ones that unwittingly evolved into connectable-marketable trades, separately and in varying combinations.

YOU NEVER KNOW WHAT CHANCE EVENT WILL START AN ENTIRE LIFE PROCESS

A set of parents had a kid in Mid-Western United States, mid-1950s. They noticed that infant boy gravitated naturally toward the spinet piano, he could match pitch, find notes, copy short melodies he heard.

Leonard Bernstein began hosting a "groundbreaking television series" with The New York Philharmonic, January 1958. When 'infant boy' turned age 3 in the same year, his parents decided it would be a good idea for him to watch this Saturday morning offering....which he did, every week for quite some time.

When asked how I became adept, natural at talking to an audience, then playing the piano -- later, conducting an orchestra...later still, playing piano and conducting, same time -- well, the seeds were all there, shown to us by Bernstein.

More to come...