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GS: What’s new in the strange and wonderful way you teach music?
DL: We’ve been coming at things from a whole different angle the last couple of years. We’re now including singing. I’d always taught singing prior to starting to do the Understanding of Music Seminar as it’s been, and time did not allow me to add singing. But so many people pushed me to I’ve put together the understanding the basics of singing seminar. Currently we’re going to do them in one location in each country. It’s a two day workshop and it’s been incredibly successful with audiences of 100+ coming in countries all over Europe.
GS: Where in the U.S. are you doing it.
DL: Boston. There are plans to take it to other areas, but the problem is always time. I’m traveling and teaching 8 ½ months of the year and have a beautiful wife who spends more time talking to me on the phone than she does face to face. I think I’ll still be delivering seminars when they try to push me into the box. You know what I mean?
GS: Yes I do. I often say that for the lucky ones, and you and I are among them, our careers are being ourselves.
DL: Absolutely. This is definitely not what I set out to do when I was younger. There was no specific goal to go out and tackle the subject of music and say this is what I’m now going to devote my life to. It’s funny how the
synchronicity of life works out in order to move you in a specific direction. You look back and reflect on all the interesting things that you’ve done that at the time looked like they were very diverse…
GS: Random.
DL: Right, not immediately, obviously connected to what you’re currently doing. But you look back and say, “You know what, that does fit in.” Without that area of experience, or series of experiences, I wouldn’t be able to do what I do as effectively as I do it.
GS: Right, and of course, when you live the way we do, there is no retirement. So you don’t have to worry about it.
