Although I never studied with Lucien, he was one of the most significant figures in my development as a pianist. When I was in the 6th grade, I began to study with one of Lucien's most significant students, Roland Schneller. I studied with Roland for seven years, and he significantly formed my technique, which I have continued to pass on to my students for 30 years more. I will never forget Lucien performing Bach's Goldberg Variations for a small group of Roland's students in his studio. That piece has continued to be a significant part of my life, and I teach it as one of only five works I cover in Music Lit, which is a course for all music majors and minors at Lipscomb. I will also never forget how gripping I found his performance of the Carter Sonata, and although I have yet to play it myself, it remains on my bucket list of works. As a 6th grader, I also remember that Lucien had a DMA degree, and I didn't know anyone else who had one of those. I decided that I was not going to stop going to school until I had a DMA like Lucien, and I eventually became the youngest person to receive a DMA from Catholic University. Another one of the most significant ways Lucien shaped me was his willingness to let me, as a high school student, collect the tickets at the evening performances of the Peabody Piano Seminars, and in exchange I got to attend all the daily classes. This has allowed me to quote for over thirty years to all my students advice and direction I heard from such pianistic luminaries of a previous generations such as Irwin Freundlich, Lilli Kraus, Ruth Slenzynska, Leon Fleisher, Adele Marcus, Sidney Foster, Meneham Pressler, Jorge Bolet, Charles Rosen and Susan Starr, This series was also an invaluable education in piano literature, as I recorded all the recitals every night on cassette and spent the next year listening to all those recitals every night to learn that literature.