"Here Is A FREE Chapter Of Lester And Me, My Unforgettable Conversations With An American Master - Lester Levenson"

Lester and Me, Conversations With An American Master by Stephen Seretan (c) 2005 -

EXCERPT CHAPTER 1

The Path to Lester

“Ask, and it shall be given to you; seek, and you shall find; knock, and the door will be opened for you.”…Matthew7:7

Adult life for me began with a question.

When I was old enough to view the world and begin to try and understand everything, one problem seemed to dwarf all the others for me:

Why is it that some people have success, money, and live a life of ease, and why are so many others doomed to never have enough money, fail at everything, and live lives of unhappiness and “quiet desperation”?

This became a driving quest for me and was to take me on a journey that I never expected.

I learned more than I ever deemed possible about how and why things are the way they are, and received answers that went beyond anything I had ever read or heard before.

I graduated cum laude from UCLA with a B.A. in music in 1970, and I decided to strike out at what I had always wanted to do.

From the time I had studied for two years with famed film composer Lalo Schifrin (“Mission
Impossible”) in the debut film scoring class at that institution, I wanted more than anything else to write music for films and television.

He liked my work and predicted success for me with his Argentine flavored, “You are going to make eet”.

At the time I was considering this career, there was nothing of what we see today of film music schools: Los Angeles is now peppered with hundreds of classes where one can learn this art form.

MIDI equipment has made it possible for anyone with a credit card to be a film composer with an orchestra at his disposal, replacing the traditional grueling study of harmony, counterpoint, orchestration, and composition that I endured as did my famous counterparts like Mozart, Beethoven, and Brahms.

Combine MIDI with a relative or friend (which I did not have) in the industry, and you have an instant music career.

Want to read the rest of the ebook: "Lester and Me, My Unforgettable Conversations With An American Master -Lester Levenson" ? Click here