That’s excellent - it’s one thing to play outstanding music, and another to work to make it accessible to a wider audience. Perhaps the musician who is attuned to the audience as well as to the music is a better piano player after all.

Outstanding - thanks!

This is quite a question, and one that has be looking back over my own life to understand motives for wanting to lead at a given time.

As I replay the tape, I’m discovering that there were as many different reasons and urges to assume or accept leadership as their were opportunities. The only common element I can find is a desire to “make something happen” that was important to me or the people around me.

You’ve struck a chord here, Jim. . .