If one has ever struggled to master a musical instrument & watched the movie "Amadeus", one will identify instantly with the character, Salieri, court composer to the Emperor of Austria. Mozart was his gifted rival whose God-given talents trumped hardwork & perseverance everytime.And so I remember now, as a young boy, it was music that brought me & a bunch of little mozarts together under the baton of the late Mr Goh Soon Tioe, famous violinist & impresario. Last Friday night, his daughter, Vivien gathered former students & alumni together for a reunion after 40 years. It was good to hear everyone share happy memories of us playing as an orchestra on the verandah of Mr Goh's house.
Though I was a musical disappointment to Mr Goh (no talent, lazy to practise), he had the wisdom to let Vivien take me under her wings (in a little studio at the bottom of the stairs). Thus was I able to fiddle some tunes, decent enough to duet with & court my wife, Theresa(an accomplished pianist) in our final year of Med School. T'was music that brought us together indeed. 
