Dear Nathaniel, Thank you for your visit, for letting me hear you practicing, and for letting me read your biography. That biography is impressive both in style and in content. I find nothing to criticize and I have nothing to add. Inasmuch as such a biography is potentially of interest to a wide spectrum of readers, I would consider use of its sections as separable and modular. Specifically, if the biography were directed to a readership concerned with your experience conducting, I would reverse the sections, telling first about yourself as a conductor, and only second as a trumpet player. The initial sentences unavoidably create an indelible impression. Similarly, if directed to a readership concerned with your experience as a trumpet player, I would keep the present structure, telling first about yourself as a trumpet player, and only second as a conductor. For some readers, facets of your life which you do not mention, might be of interest. Consider as a biography module, a name-dropping paragraph, a catalogue of musicians (and other teachers) to whom you are indebted, especially (and perhaps only) if you can rely on their potential endorsement. Consider a module in which you tip your hat to the schools - from Burbank through Yale and Indiana - which you have endured and survived. Consider a module suggesting your tolerant relationship to organized religion, from all the Easter services which your trumpet has celebrated, to your comfortable cohabitation at Unilu with the descendants of Martin Luther. Consider a module recounting your informal music-making, the annual Christmas Eve serenades in the back yard of 178 School Street, the serenades in Harvard Square and on Nantucket, and not least, your trumpet solo in the deserted Kloster Chorin. There's no reason why some of your reports should not avail themselves of the first person singular, and tell "what I saw, what I heard, felt, thought and did. Once you have composed your modules, you can insert them, like the sections of a musical composition, to become part of different biographies, conveying in each instance, those facets of your experiences which are relevant to the communication at hand. I hope I haven't said too much. Please forgive me. Jochen