Competitive golf is played mainly on a five-and-a-half-inch course... the space between your ears.
I began to write a kind of waltz and in a little more than an hour I had the theme written.
I gladly accepted the commission but was uncertain about what the end result would be. On the one hand, Cuban music was conquering the world; being heard everywhere, and our small island was already producing one of the popular musical genres of the 20th century.

