[Sarbrienna]

I'm typing this before I listened, wanting to comment on the instructions of your theatre director.
Asking someone to write out a list of their musical influences is a mental exercise, for sure,
but I'd feel insulted to find this reception, after composing my own "little piece".
Is the theatre director looking for content to use in a program or advertisement?
Those are the only business reasons, positive reasons, I can think of for using what is almost biographical material.
How can you list a musical influence if it was simply hearing the sound of a new instrument that interested you,
leading you into finding music with this sound?
As a mental exercise, this ties you down, trying to remember the first time for almost everything musical,
and nailing it to one specific time or performer, when our minds are always cogitating and referencing all input.

For me, what's the greatest musical influence here?
The sound of Beethoven's music, a lot of it listened to over the years,
or the memories of that piano during a Bugs Bunny cartoon,
where they were building skyscrapers to classical music?