After spending 16 years gaining fame while roaming the grass where Joe DiMaggio and Mickey Mantle once trod, Bernie Williams was on the stage made famous by Leonard Bernstein and where guitar great Andrés Segovia once played.
RONALD BLUM Associated Press NEW YORK — Bernie Williams was in the center, just like the old days at Yankee Stadium. Only this time he was at Lincoln Center alongside conductor Gustavo Dudamel and making his New York Philharmonic debut.
A day before the performance, he recalled going to the Manhattan School of Music from 2012-16 to learn his new trade and earn a bachelor's degree. "Bernie grew up in Puerto Rico and I think that maybe he had some other opportunities outside music," Dudamel said. "When you're on the road, there's a certain amount of time that you spend in the room," Williams said."A lot of people play video games, a lot of people just watch TV. So I used to kind of like split time between watching TV, ordering room service and playing guitar between."
By 2003, Williams released his first recording,"The Journey Within." His second,"Moving Forward," earned a Latin Grammy nomination in 2009 for best instrumental album, and he's contemplating his third, which he hopes will have more daring playing and writing.
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