Back in the last century, Kishore Bhargava and I used to travel all over India, giving talks on data communication, the internet, BBSs, etc.
While some people today comment that both of us are decent ad-hoc speakers and appear to be able to speak on any topic without any preparation, that is not really true – before every talk, we used to practice, tune our slides, argue, refine, change points, add new ones, etc. to give our audiences the kind of great experience any speaker should give his audiences.
But I digress…
Often, these preparations would take place in our hotel rooms late into the night (since during daytime we were either presenting, or traveling).
And to make this preparatory time easier and more enjoyable for us, we used to have music playing in the background.
And this music was, almost always, Vanessa-Mae‘s most famous album – The Violin Player.