My Brother’ s Secret Space Communication Projects When my brother George and | were kids, | could recite the alphabet backwards, whereas he read the entire dictionary. We both played the violin, and when he was nine and | was six, we performed at Carnegie Hall. (| was the youngest concert artist in any field to perform there.) Our younger sister Marge took piano lessons and became a legendary figure at Boys and Girls High School in Brooklyn, teaching music and running the chorus. Now retired, she and two women--one plays the cello, the other a flute—recently performed at the Salvador Dali Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida, playing music connected to various phases of Dali’ s life. (She also teaches Tai Chi.) Marge was the only one in our family who stuck with classical music. Although | was considered a child prodigy, | merely had a technique for playing the violin, but | had a real passion for making people laugh. | put my violin in the closet when | was twelve, and several years later | used it essentially as a prop when | began performing stand-up comedy. George went to the High School of Music & Art, and was offered a four-year scholarship at the Juilliard School’ s renowned Music Division, but he HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_015426