>> So I went to Pomona thinking that I would be an English major and go to law school.
I'd always participated in music.
My mother used to say that I sang before I talked.
I don't know if that's true.
But it's a good story.
I was able in the public schools in Los Angeles to join and orchestra and a choir
in the third grade, and I always performed.
I always loved doing it.
Sang as much as I could.
Not as good a clarinet player or pianist, but, you know, you have the sacrifice something.
To I Pomona, and I, probably fool-heartedly enrolled in a couple
of upper-division English classes my freshman year, and that was a rude shock.
I discovered that I was not probably cut out for that aspect of being an English major,
and I found I was spending so much time in the music department that I just went with it.
So I wound up being a music major.
It's kind of pedestrian, but I was lucky enough to be able to forge a career in the area
that I studied in college, and not everybody can say that.