When I was in fourth grade, I was given an "aptitude test" for admission to the then-new school recorder class - simple vocal pitch-matching exercise...
I wasn't accepted - instructor said I had no musical ability...
Next year I auditioned for the school chorus - made it with no problem; also began guitar lessons - finished the entire original six-book Alfred's method in under nine months (thank you, Jack Wilkins
)...
Played two solos during my sixth-grade year - one for the class play, one at Graduation ceremonies with my brand-new Gretsch Double Annie...
Took majors' sequence Music courses in college, did freelance full-score choral/orchestral and small-group vocal/instrumental arranging during the '80s-90s...
Wonder what ever happened to that recorder teacher...?
