When I first entered college it was on a music scholarship. There was one guy in the same classes with me from Springfield. He was a composition and piano major. After four terms he left. He didn't go home. No one knew where he went. His parents filed a Missing Persons report. A few months later, the music department chair received a letter from him---from Austria as I remember. He was going to baking school to be a pastry chef. Said he never wanted to be a musician.
"If you've got to resist, your chances of being hurt are less the more lethal your weapon. If that were my wife, would I want her to have a .38 Special in her hand? Yeah." - Dr. Arthur Kellermann, Health Magazine (March/April 1994) p 61
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Very interesting and telling of the pressure put on young proformers of all stripes...
When I first entered college it was on a music scholarship. There was one guy in the same classes with me from Springfield. He was a composition and piano major. After four terms he left. He didn't go home. No one knew where he went. His parents filed a Missing Persons report. A few months later, the music department chair received a letter from him---from Austria as I remember. He was going to baking school to be a pastry chef. Said he never wanted to be a musician.
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