Mario Bagur gave me my first piano lesson in July 1969 in our 120 Garfield Place 2 bedroom apartment in Park Slope, Brooklyn.  I have been in love with the piano and have always had a piano and still practice 2-4 hours,  5-7 days a week.   I remember when he came over he would play the Chopin Etude Opus 10 no 4, Scherzo #2, Beethoven's "Tempest' piano sonata with such artistic expression that those memories keep me going now.   I remember when he enrolled at Manhattan School of Music to get his Piano Performance degree.  When he was getting ready for a jury exam that he would play his program for us and that gave me such an education on how to be a professional.  You need to apply yourself everyday without fail to become an expert.  Today, I am a practicing urologist in St. Louis because of what Mario Bagur taught me as a shy child in  Brooklyn.   I have studied piano performance with one of the Worlds Greatest Pianists Maestro Earl Wild all in an effort to imitate Mario.  Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.  I will always treasure our relationship through the years and I hope to follow through with a degree in piano performance just like you did.  I am sure there are many others students of yours' that have followed your footsteps.  I only wish was that I could have Facetimed you but we will meet again when God calls me.  You and my father were my role models.  Now I need to have my 2 year old daughter follow this same path that your started me on in 1969.  God Bless you Mario.  I will say 100 "Our Fathers" for your passage to heaven.  God Bless. 

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Mario Bagur

June 11, 1941 – July 8, 2022

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