Jill de Vries – Admirable Proficiency
Today, although somewhat out of practice, she can still play a Chopin nocturne with admirable proficiency.
“For a long time,” she recalls, “I wanted to be a concert pianist – I was really quite serious about it, in fact. But my music teacher convinced me that it was really a rough life, and by the time college rolled around, I’d given up the idea.” By then, she’d also given up cheerleading, because, as Jill de Vries says, “I realized how dumb it really was.”
