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One of my principal childhood memories is hearing one of the Liszt Hungarian Rhapsodies waft throughout the house.

Both of my parents were musicians.

Stravinsky used Mother Goose. He was influenced by Mother Goose, indirectly, but very beautifully.

Our parents were musicians.

My father was a Norwegian tenor and my mother a New York Irish librarian.

My father was a classical musician and my mother was a writer.

You might say that Richard Wagner was the Queen Victoria of Europe. He had musical children everywhere!

My parents were what I like to call proper musical fans. Lots of Sondheim was played in the car.

Genetically, I have tons of musical background in my life. My mother's father was a famous Weimar-era composer, Ernst Toch. My father's mother was the head of the Vienna Conservatory's piano department. It all canceled out in my case. I'm completely hopeless in music.

Both my grandfathers and my mother's brother were musicians.