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Michael Levy

When Michael Levy was tall enough to reach the keys of his sister's Baldwin Acrosonic, he played his first notes. They were improvised... and original. This first expression of what was to come could only be defined as noise by most people, except, of course, Mike's mom, who interpreted it as "potential". The fact that Mike could not even see the keys at that point had no bearing on his mother's insight, an insight only a mother could have. This native state, which might have led immediately to an improvisitory epiphany if left to itself, was marred by the introduction of two extraordinary musical compositions about a year later. "Chopsticks" and "Heart And Soul" became the musical nexus by which the young artist touched the universal longing for musical consciousness (in the West at least. Although "Chopsticks" seems to be of Asian origin, extensive research has shown it to have been composed by a Benedictine monk in the 1920's, playing on a keyboard that was having the sharps relaquered.).