Sonia Friedman
Desert Island Discs
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The First Job Interview
I went to a progressive co-educational vegetarian boarding school. There were no rules, so if you didn't go to class, nobody reprimanded you. The only punishment was that you were left out. I found that the lack of structure completely worked for me. Did you ever want to be a performer yourself? No, I wanted to be a cellist. And I loved singing, but with an incredibly gifted older sister and a violinist brother, I knew that I had to be good. But quite early on, when she was about 11, I gave it up and I will always regret that. By the time you were in your 20s, you were working at the National
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