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My mother tells methat by five years old...
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l had decided definitivelyto become a concert pianist.
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l think she had decidedsometime earlier.
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The story goesthat while l was in the womb...
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she played the piano continuouslyto give me a head start...
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and evidently it paid off.
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My mother was my first teacherand l've never doubted her methods.
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After allshe introduced me to Bach.
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Oh good. Try another.
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By the age of ten l had the first bookof The Well-Tempered Clavier...
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pretty much under my belt.
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Good. Oh that's good.
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Very good.Let's try one up at this end here.
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My childhood was full of musiceven at our cottage on Lake Simcoe.
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Those days seem particularly idyllicto me at least in retrospect.
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- Go ahead.- They were compared to my school days.
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Eight-seven times twenty-three is--
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At an early age l could read musicand memorize it on the spot.
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ln fact l could read musicbefore l could read words.
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l remember l used to play a gamewith my mother...
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where l would identify the chords sheplayed from the other side of the house.
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