i was going to say lady, because that�*s what she seemed to me at the time, that was sitting next to me. she was “i! and that was, er... i felt sort of intimidated by that. i don�*t think my feet could properly touch the floor. but... iwas... i remember being told off once or twice for chatting to the person behind me, misbehaving. i remember there being one particularly difficult passage of music that i had worked out, like, a really complicated, like, finger pattern for, alongside my teacher, and i had to turn around and play the whole thing slowly for the whole first—violin section, and... but, i mean, at the age of eight, how much sense of responsibility do you really have? i was oblivious, kind of, and i was particularly oblivious the minute i started playing. so i could be kind of running around, going crazy backstage, and then my mum would be, like, "you�*ve got to do this