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• ‟ I grew up in a time when being a musician and learning to be a musician was actually very wonderful.

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• ‟ Seriously though, my father was the first African American to sign a contract with the Metropolitan Opera so I grew up with classical music and jazz in the home all the time.

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• ‟ Then I left that school and I went to Cerritos College, which was in southern California; they had one of the best big band programs in the country at the time.

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• ‟ Well, I started conducting kind of by accident. I wanted to give myself a special birthday present for my fortieth birthday, and I was living in San Francisco at the time and I started attending some of the concerts and then simply dropping hints.

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• ‟ I did the one concert, and I was not bitten by the conducting bug, and I thought I was done, but then the phone started to ring, and gradually, over time, I started conducting more and more. Now a third of my performances are with orchestras.

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