Diary of a Young Musician

During the previous 14-year period, he managed to receive a degree in music education, where a part of his time at college had the semblance of a scene from a Dostoyevsky novel. His long tour in the South before the 1950's was an eye opener for a young boy: problems with a sheriff in Macon County, Georgia, who had a dislike for New Yorkers, and scary run-ins with corrupt policemen in New Orleans, raising his awareness that the situation in that part of the country was more devastating for blacks. The momentous social changes he described in the land of magnolias and mint juleps before the civil rights upheaval and the above events are a fast read, filled with humor, excitement, and in some cases sadness.