After Reaching 50, I Began To Wonder

This Middle Age Thing Is A Little Weird. Some Friends And Mentors Are Gone, And There's A Very Forward-looking New Generation Coming Up Behind Me. So It's Very Much Finding My Own Place.

As You Begin To Realize That Every Different Type Of Music, Everybody's Individual Music, Has Its Own Rhythm, Life, Language And Heritage, You Realize How Life Changes, And You Learn How To Be More Open And Adaptive To What Is Around Us.

The Tango Is Really A Combination Of Many Cultures, Though It Eventually Became The National Music Of Argentina.

One Is That You Have To Take Time, Lots Of Time, To Let An Idea Grow From Within. The Second Is That When You Sign On To Something, There Will Be Issues Of Trust, Deep Trust, The Way The Members Of A String Quartet Have To Trust One Another.

We May Be Coming To A New Golden Age Of Instrument Making.