:03:20
My mother tells me
that by five years old...
:03:23
l had decided definitively
to become a concert pianist.
:03:28
l think she had decided
sometime earlier.
:03:32
The story goes
that while l was in the womb...
:03:35
she played the piano continuously
to give me a head start...
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and evidently it paid off.
:03:43
My mother was my first teacher
and l've never doubted her methods.
:03:47
After all
she introduced me to Bach.
:03:50
Oh good. Try another.
:03:55
By the age of ten l had the first book
of The Well-Tempered Clavier...
:04:00
pretty much under my belt.
:04:02
Good. Oh that's good.
:04:05
Very good.
Let's try one up at this end here.
:04:09
My childhood was full of music
even at our cottage on Lake Simcoe.
:04:14
Those days seem particularly idyllic
to me at least in retrospect.
:04:17
- Go ahead.
- They were compared to my school days.
:04:41
Eight-seven times twenty-three is--
:04:44
At an early age l could read music
and memorize it on the spot.
:04:48
ln fact l could read music
before l could read words.
:04:53
l remember l used to play a game
with my mother...
:04:55
where l would identify the chords she
played from the other side of the house.