“I think I was around six or seven years old. I got a call to go do something in Washington, and this was the first big fundraiser for what is now the Kennedy Center. As a child, I was probably pretty unselfconscious. And it’s that part that you want to treasure as you grow up. As you go on further in life, you actually want to recapture that, and to realize that the most important thing you can do onstage is really be there in the moment and share the joy of what you’re doing.” 1962, with Yeou-Cheng Ma, President Dwight D. Eisenhower, President John F. Kennedy, and Leonard Bernstein. The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
