grammys, emmys everything from carnegie hall to sesame vote and next week performing at the opening gal la of the new york philharmonic's 171st season. [cheers and applause] thank you i did read that well, thank you. >> you forgot i'm doing the colbert show, too. >> stephen: congratulations, when an honor. [cheers and applause] it's -- we're until the days after tonement here. anything would you like to apologies for me for? >> for all the wrong notes. throughout the years there were about -- i think -- three of them. >> stephen: i was going to say, i accept your apology. thank you so much. [ laughter ] i love classical music in its place, okay, at the background -- background at a nice restaurant or something to cut an olympic montage too but i don't understand people's passion for classical music. what is it that drew you to it? >> i was listening on the radio to violinist and classical pieces and orchestras and i like particularly the violinists the sound of tone. >> stephen: how old are we talking here? >> three or four years ago. they brought me a small violin and it didn't sound like