Summer of 1977, I attended a conducting seminar with Donald Hunsberger. One afternoon another attendee asked Dr. Hunsberger how to become a professional conductor. Dr. Hunsberger described a student of the school that took his portfolio of compositions to New York City and meet Pierre Boulez. The student showed his music and expressed his interest in conducting. Boulez invited the student back the next for a reading of his music and a conducting lesson with the New York Philharmonic.

I am listening to this story and becoming somewhat embarrassed because this student did the same thing to me when he was my student in junior high ten years before. What a proud moment to hear about a former student from such a prominent musician.