"It is sobering to realize that by the time Mozart was my age, he had been dead for three years. It's those kind of people that make you realize how little you have accomplished."
Forty years ago I studied the (French) Horn. I even had ideas about turning pro and saw myself doing studio work, staying up all night for recording sessions, saying goodbye to fellow musicians over waffles before sleeping all day.
But I made different choices.
I still love horn music though; and this kind of thing makes me wonder how good I could have been:
Let me note that she is, as my Texan relatives would say, a little bitty thing. But the sound she puts out is wonderfully full.
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