I went to Evan Gage's house last night so he could hear me play his pieces. Afterwards we sat in his living room and talked. He has been working on his bachelor's degree in composition for almost 15 years, if you include taking courses at Sacramento City College in 1990. Somewhere in there, he studied for a year in Germany. He had taken a couple of years of German at Sac State, but when he arrived in country, he realized that they spoke a different dialect, and his German was almost useless. Still he soldiered on and realized his dream of visiting Mozart's grave. "I achieved my goal, and now consider myself in retirement." 
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