A job that changed me : At 14 I was a basketball musician. If someone missed a shot, I’d drop in (…)

A big shot earned a triumphant snare drum roll with a resolving crash. My timing was often slightly late, occasionally wildly inappropriate Music came to me very early on. I’m told that as a baby I would fall asleep to opera – arias would stop me crying. By age six I was enrolled at the local (…)