Her painting, cookery and piano classes have been dropped.

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Now, Brackeen is a professor at Berklee College of Music, with piano master classes and jazz ensembles.

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At college, he played piano for ballet classes for extra money, and he knew what she was talking about, the hardness of the dancers.

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He stopped playing for ballet classes and wrote a piano quintet.

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