I'm An Exhibitionist, I Was An Exhibitionist

If You Asked Anybody In My Family, They Would Have Very Stridently Proclaimed Themselves Middle Class. My Mother And Father Were Separated, So He Doesn't Count.

My Uncle And My Grandfather Both Worked In The Brooklyn Navy Yard.

And Then Adds With A Laugh, 'but In Retrospect I Think He May Have Been More Sophisticated Than We Were.'

If You Look At Music, You See Theme, Variation, You See Symmetry, Asymmetry, You See Structure, And These Are Related To Skills In The Real World.

One Of My Earliest Memories... I Knew Three Full Verses Of The Star Spangled Banner When I Was Seven Or Eight Years Old. And One Of The Nuns Discovered This Phenomenon And I Was Actually Sent Around From Classroom To Classroom To Do The Whole Thing.