I’d never heard sounds like that and to be in the same room, even though it was a smelly school dining hall, and there were only 20 of them up there on stage, I was absolutely enchanted.

This is a song by Aaron Lee Tasjan, wonderful young musician and he, from time to time, accompanies my wife in a group of wonderful musicians that she works with. This is a song by Aaron called “Git Gone” and it is sung by Ms. Sunny Ozell.

This song is from the very first Steven Sondheim show I ever saw, when my first wife, who was a choreographer, choreographed a Guildhall School of Music production of “Merrily We Row Along”. There were so many delightful, uncomfortable songs in that musical, but this song, which comes toward the end of the show, is actually upbeat and the song is called “Our Time."

Next up, you’ve selected some music from Randy Newman. Which track did you pick?PS: This is a track that’s called “New Orleans Wins the War.”It’s a combination of many things that I enjoy and am interested in. It’s autobiographical, it is very funny, it is quite bleak at times in some of the pictures he paints, and it also makes me laugh a lot.

The first one is Mr. Paul Simon and I have a track from his album, So Beautiful or So What. I’m proud about enjoying Paul Simon because when my kids were young and they were listening to all kinds of music that they liked and I wasn’t interested in, I was the one who introduced them to Paul Simon and they have both become fans since that. So this is the song “Getting Ready for Christmas Day."