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I started to perform when I was four years old. I am the son of a very fine concert pianist, and at my first performance at the age of four I sang and played an Indian Love Song which I wrote myself, music and lyrics. At the age of five, six and seven years of age, my mother could not take me away from the piano; she had to force me away from the piano to eat. At the age of seven years I started to play concerts on the stage with the great piano soloist, Charles Kunkle, who was a that time one of the finest concert pianists of the world. He was equal to Paderewski, who was the greatest pianist in the world. He, himself, in person, attended one of the concerts that I was playing when I was about eight years old. Paderewski was so amazed and so enthused that he went back stage and gave a note written by him to my mother about her son, telling her what he thought about me. In this note one of the phrases was, "your son is a natural born pianist, and he will be the finest pianist in the world when he grows up." My mother has preserved this note throughout the years.
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I was about twelve years old when I was playing concerts all over with Charles Kunkel who was the first cousin of the great Beethoven. As I was growing up and attending school I won a scholarship to go to college, and I chose to attend college in Germany and the name of the college is, The Beethoven Conservatory of Music and Voice. The people in charge of the conservatory in Germany, after hearing me play the piano and sing, told my mother that I was already so much advanced that there was not much they could do to teach me, but they will be glad and honored to take me under their wing and have me play concerts and continue with my singing, and they would give me advice on anything I might need. This is what was told to my mother by the Beethoven Music Conservatory in Germany, the greatest in Europe. Well enough about me.
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