... my own ideas start to come out?

Well, so my, my, like, background with the classical was kinda, was an interesting one because I followed my teacher.

We started doing, you know, like, the Kiwanis festivals and all the performance stuff, but then he ventured off on his own, and he was, like, a classical, like, you know, did a lot of operettas and things, like this kinda guy from Wales.

And then he started his own curriculum and was very free with, like, how we wa- we'd bring our own sheet music in.

We could do, like, contemporary stuff, like musical theater, all this kind of fun stuff, as well as, you know, all the stuff that he was introducing to us.

We still did, you know, sight reading and, and a lot of the, the technical stuff.

And, uh, but for that reason, I think there was a little bit more of this, like, you know, creative elements-

Like, did you just have opportunities show up for you that you got to walk through those, those doors?