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Serge- 18 Years Ago
“I did it! I won the Sir Georg Solti Conducting apprenticeship with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, plus they have asked me to be a guest conductor in Vienna this summer.”
The phone call telling me the news came this afternoon, and couldn’t have come at a better time. Graduation was only two weeks away, and I’d finally gotten an agent and had been frantically looking for work. I’d hoped to secure a position in New York, that way I could be closer to Grant, Mom and Aunt Svetta, but the conducting apprenticeship in Chicago was one of the best in the world. Turning that down, plus the guest position in Europe would be the stupidest thing I could ever do.
“Cheers. To your future success.” Grant raised his glass, though the tone of his voice seemed subdued. I’d been n
