i remember an lp of chicago symphony conducted by daniel, lp, beautiful, with all tchaikovsky music,812, all of that. and i was rehearsing. i was stopping, i was stopping the recording to say this is loud. this goes down, again, i destroyed the lp, i remember but i was giving my concert with my little toys there in front. and that was the beginning. it was a very serious game. i remember that. >> rose: you took it seriously. >> you cannot imagine. you cannot imagine how serious it was. it was silence 234 my house. my house was, i don't know, 45 square meters. i don't know, there living my uncles, my grandparents, my parents. but it was a beautiful atmosphere. and i was say fog them you have to sit down and you have to listen my concert. or you have stop because i'm rehearsing now. and that was-- that was my life, what's really, i was dreaming, you know, after school to go back to home and to get my toys and to do my rehearsing. until i was 11 years old, and the conductor of the organize tra where i was playing, he was late. this was a youth children's orchestra, he was late. >> and t

i remember an lp of chicago symphony conducted by daniel -- lp beautiful with tchaikovsky music, slavearch, it it will, italiano, 1812, all of that and i was rehearsing and stopping the recording to say this is loud, this needs to go down, again. i destroyed the lp, i remember, but i was giving my concert with my little toys there in front. and that was the beginning. and it was a very serious game. i remember -- >> rose: you took it seriously? >> you cannot imagine how serious it was. there was silence in my house. my house was, i know, 45 square meters. i don't know my grandparents, my parents, but it was beautiful atmosphere, and i was saying to them, you have zero to sit now and you have to listen to my concert. oh, yo you have to stop becausei am rehearsing now and that was my life, i was dreaming, you know, after school to go back to home and to get my toys and to do my rehearsal until i was 11 years old and the conductor of the orchestra where i was playing, he was late, this was -- >> ah. >> and he was late, and, well,. >> rose: there you were. >> exactly. imitating, because we

floats around in your head when you are 70 years old and it all kind of melds together, a little tchaikovsky, a little deborchak. >> some limericks. ♪ you bring the whiskey i will bring the rye. >> things like that, and and all bouncing around in there so it was just a long stream of consciousness with the orchestra. >> rose: did you work hard to create these love, erotic love sonnets? was it a difficult and demanding task, challenge? >> a sonnet is 14 lines of iambic pentameter with a rhyme scheme so it is not that hard to write. >> it is always a great place to have you here. >> rose: it is great to see you, charlie. >> take care. >> anything i haven't said about you that i should. >> thank you for not saying it. thank you for avoiding that. >> rose: your daughter is now 15, that is good too. >> she is 15. he is at a boarding school, which was painful, but,. >> rose: hard for her to leave the nest? >> it was. still is painful for me, but she is over it now. >> rose: i am not surprised by that. >> no. >> no. and an only child. >> rose: i know. >> loves to be in the company of other teenage