It’s absolutely necessary after hearing your sample on this blog.

History: I was a student in your dad’s literature class (I can’t remember which particular class, it was ten years ago) at New Mexico State. He was bragging about you (in a humble way) so I mentioned you to my sister and she remembered you. You were 13 when she knew you from the Newman Center and had an interesting story that I relayed to Joe (aka your dad) and he told me another interesting story. If you’re interested in the interesting stories and in letting me know how I can see a performance you can e-mail me at elastigirlnm@yahoo.com. If not, I guess I’ll just buy a cd

It’s good to see you’re doing well for yourself as a musician. I missed you at the 20th high school reunion (although it really wasn’t an event worth attending.) I wish you all the continued best with your life and career.

-Graham Ames

I’m an American pianist studying in Berlin, and I love reading your blog not only as a pianist, but also as a fellow blogger. Unfortunately, my stories aren’t nearly as exciting as yours. I do remember a similar incident, once, while playing the Liszt Dante Sonata in San Francisco (an interesting combination of your two experiences here), of feeling ecstactic glory over nailling those two horrible pages of octaves and then plunging into a harmonic bog of mist and uncertainty and definitely the wrong key. It’s like…hmmm, how’d I get here, (getting frantic now) you !@&*$%&#^&!!!!!!

Long live cliches. I myself have a thing for adjectives while writing my own blog.

All the best.