A few years later, my Uncle David took me to the Earle Theatre to hear Duke Ellington.

We met with the poet Frank O'Hara, who was a link between Upper and Lower Bohemia, and who worked at the Museum of Modern Art, where we had hoped to do the readings.

Franz Kline, who became known for his black and white paintings, did a whole series of gorgeous landscapes and wonderful portraits that may still hang in Greenwich Village.

I wish to share and pass down some of my generation's traits, and encourage young people to create their own art, music, and literature.

In symphonic music, when you are conducting, you do the same thing. You are feeling the whole orchestra, thinking ahead so you can prepare for a change.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti had a tremendous education as an artist and also an enormous knowledge of literarture.

A few years later, my Uncle David took me to the Earle Theatre to hear Duke Ellington.