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MUSIC IN MY LIFE 

Music has been part of my life since I was born because music is in my DNA. It runs in the family. My Swedish grandparents played piano and organ, banjo and mandolin. I would not be surprised if their ancestors were musical, too. Although I took violin lessons as a child, I had no one to play music with in the little farm town where I grew up. I cannot think of another child who was also trying to play violin.


My father taught me piano when I was learning violin since the clef is the same. Later, I asked to take piano lessons because I wanted to learn music that was "modern." By this, I meant songs that people my age, about 11 or 12, would enjoy hearing played on the piano.


My father hired a piano teacher, a serious and accomplished Swiss pianist. She arrived at the house and said, "I understand you want to learn modern music. I have brought you Bartok." Bartok is a favorite of many musicians, but sadly, he and his music never resonated with me. And that was the end of piano lessons.

"Playing music is good for the soul because it requires full focus in the present, thereby pushing both the past and the future into the shadows." Jane Anderson Vercelli