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Elizabeth Gahbler's avatar

Beautiful story. I already loved music as a 5-year-old. But what really got the ball rolling was when I saw a concert in 1968 with the Los Angeles Symphony Orchestra conducted by Zubin Mehta, with Itzhak Perlman performing Prokofiev's Violin Concerto. As a 12-year-old, I loved the music, but when we were going down the stairs on the way out, we were walking behind two men who were discussing the performance in detail and how Perlman did this and that with this theme and that theme etc. I was totally amazed that you could think and talk about complicated music (for me) that way and decided that was what I wanted to do.

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Muriel Palmer-Rhea's avatar

I was infatuated with horses from the first time I saw the Junkman’s horse stop before my grandmother’s house when I was 4. When I was 8 I had a friend who was seriously training to be a Ballet dancer, and developed an appreciation of that art. In 5th grade I received a copy of Marguerite Henry’s “Album of Horses” which had a beautiful painting of a circus horse with a dancer on its back and wondered how I could do THAT? So began a life in an assortment of arts, drawing and painting horses, choreographer for a figureskating club. A songwriter who listens to Bach and “Va Pensaro” before sliding off to sleep. To dream about dancing, flying horses and beautiful music.

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