: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.
:05:01
People always seem to make a great deal
out of these early signs...
:05:04
but they hardly constitute miracles
in my opinion.
:05:09
l simply have a facility
with a certain kind of minutia.
:05:13
- l always have.
- 87 times 26 equals 2262.
:05:19
Eighty-seven times--
:05:21
Eighty-seven times 27
equals 2349.
:05:25
Eighty-seven times 28
equals 2436.
:05:35
l often think how fortunate l was...
:05:39
to have been brought up
in an environment...
:05:42
where music was always present.
:05:45
Who knows what would have
become of me otherwise?
:05:48
lt's a question
l often ask myself...
:05:52
but l've yet to come up
with an answer.