Stuart Rosenberg took this project to Bruce Kaplan at Flying Fish, and the whole thing came together. I met a CSO cellist named David Chickering, who lived up Jarvis Street from us, and we started having music in a place called "The Storefront" downstairs from where we lived. Some of the musicians on "Gates" were people who played there - Collins and Melissa Trier, who played with the Lyric Opera, and Mark Kraemer, also from the CSO. Howard Levy's harmonica was another wonderful addition.
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