[darrellmaurina]

244 posted on Fri Aug 24 2012 18:33:51 GMT-0500 (Central Daylight Time) by Emperor Palpatine: “Personally I’m doing fine. You’d be surprised how much money a concert artist makes. I want tons more. I want to make a pile to set up a few things like a scholarship fund for deserving young pianists when I die. Can’t do that now, not as volatile as the market is.”

This is off-topic, but I'm glad to see a conservative classical pianist at the concert performance level. To perform well with classical training requires tremendous personal self-discipline and anyone who can do that has a gift I definitely don't have — but which I can definitely admire.

[Emperor Palpatine]

I couldn’t be anything less than a conservative.

My first piano teacher fled Stalin’s Russia and she used to tell me horror stories......hear me? HORROR stories.