Harvard University

The man was a prodigy. He had performed for American presidents and even the Queen of England, every moment documented with autographed photographs hanging in his guest bathroom. Even with a stature of 5 feet and change, his presence towered above me unforgivingly. His skeptical eye stared down at me as I struggled to balance my mom’s iPhone on its makeshift tripod. A month earlier, the Pasadena Symphony–Pops had commissioned me to create a video featuring its debuting conductor, Michael Feinstein. Now, the five-time Grammy nominee hunkered down on his piano bench, impatiently waiting for my…