He started work as an accountant in his early 20s, but his wide social circle in the music world meant he was still out playing gigs every evening.
Rather than being singers, violinists or ukulele players, they became IT managers, civil servants and pharmacists. He talked about a musician he knew who played in the orchestra pit of The Lion King every night who would now “panic at being asked to play anything else”. From the vantage point of retirement, people could see the benefits of pursuing their calling in their later years instead.
In retirement, music was about having fun, experimentation and companionship, and it didn’t matter what went wrong.
Prolly explains why some world class ballerinas are from schools in Russia, Paris, London as their passion were not disrupted by stereotypes and discriminations🤷🏼♀️🩰