then, i went, for example to marlborough.ank and able community of brilliant teaching musicians. then i went to aspen to study with rosina levine because she was the most dynamic teacher of the instrument at the time. she was very well known for working on technique, but she took me, knowing full well that i was trying to use the piano as a tool for conducting mostly. i didn't know how much i wanted to perform on the piano. it turned out i did want to and did do quite a lot more than i pictured when i started. she was very willing to start with me when i was 14, the year after i was with -- in aspen, darius milhaud, he brought contemporary composers within every summer. one had a chance to talk with them and hear their music and work on the music. for example, i conducted albert herring in front of its composer benjamin britten when i was there. i think of that now because we are doing a beautiful revival of midsummer night's dream at the met at the moment and it is britain's hundredth year. whenever i conduct a french piece,

. >>> later this morning, showplace arena in upper marlborough is going to look packed like this, because prince george's county is helping you get your kids ready for school. and in the back-to-school spirit early with us on this saturday, news4's derek ward live there in upper marlborough with the latest. how is it looking so far? i know this is something that draws thousands of parents and their kids out. >> oh, indeed it does, take a look at the event floor here at the showplace arena. you can see it's filling up. each of the tables will be manned or womaned, by someone from a county school, county agency, various services that are available to folks here as they get ready for the new school year. you know, this is sort of the entryway to a successful school year for folks. and it all gets under way at 10:00, they start letting people in. at about 9:30. take a look. people started actually lining up outside as early as 6:30 this morning. and that line is continuing to grow. now what's happening here is they will be on site registration. you can purchase school uniforms, backpack give

the fair will last until 1:00 this afternoon at showplace arena in upper marlborough. >>> this morningeative campaign to make your seat more comfortable at the theater when you head to the movies. >>> plus, we had it here at our studio just last week. the suggestions are now in, the votes have been tall idea. yeah, there's the pink van. we know the new name for that pink ambulance, it's so cool looking in prince george's county. >>> a chance of rain today, what about tomorrow? storm team 4 meteorologist chuck bell has your weekend for >>> this morning, a special fire truck has a new name. thanks to your input. >> you might remember when prince george's county's pink fire truck paid us a visit. it pulled into our parking lot last week. it was the ambulance that came in amelia brought us the report from outside. the truck promotes breast cancer awareness, it's nicknamed hope. spokesman for the department was hope was proposed more than any other name. picked up from more than 230 potential names that you submitted. >> it got my vote. i'm so glad. >> saw some of the runner-ups that caused

backpackings there's a way to do that in prince george's county at the showplace arena in upper marlboroughn get your kids their necessary immunization shots there. as long as you bring their paperwork. if you're a "house of cards" fan the show will be filming in d.c. today. you'll see crews around the national mall, on pennsylvania, constitution and independence avenues. if you plan to drive around there, well, probably best not to. all those roads are going to be shut down. >>> keep the silver line in mind if you ride metro today, it will not run east beyond stadium armory during this weekend's track work. you can instead take the blue line, along those trains, going to be a little delayed, running every 24 minutes. a little slow. we're going to check the forecast, when we come back. stay with us. 's unclear, at this time, if he will be able to compete in more pga events this season. >>> finally, sometimes, sometimes, the biggest, best things come in small packages, just ask my daughter. this is from the milwaukee brewers game. a foul ball heads to the seat. the normal mob. look who comes