It enables me to care. In high school, while taking private lessons with William Bell, Eli Newberger studied piano, organ, and theory at Juilliard. At Yale, he majored in music theory, and began a lifelong interest in applying principles of musical analysis to the study of jazz improvising styles. Jazz Takes on Male Character. Among his many acknowledgements and awards, Eli won the 1996 Mississippi Rag reader's poll for best traditional jazz tuba player, and twice previously, the Jazzology Magazine poll.
Sharing is contagious behavior.
During my childhood, my father, even with two jobs, made barely enough income to pay for the essentials. When I begged for piano lessons at age five, and a teacher told my mother I had enough talent to justify having a good instrument at home, she, without consulting my father, upgraded the old piano to a Steinway, signing a contract to pay for it in installments. My father was predictably furious, but after his outbursts he would eventually subside. To me, as a preschooler and schoolboy, it often looked as though my mother was caring and giving, to the extent of her ability, and that my father was ungenerous toward her and his children. I went off to college without my own instrument.