He's a teacher, a performer, an author and a scholar. Today, he's considered one of the nation's leading interpreters of modern American music. By the time I went to music school, I already had a firm idea of where I wanted to be." But then in high school, there was a kind of a riptide, where conventional music like Rachmaninoff and Chopin kind of became an entrée into modern composers. … I didn't really know classical music could be a creative vessel. I considered myself a late bloomer musically. That teacher - Richard Shadroui, "he's in his 90s now," Tendler says - "gave me the long leash I needed. One particular teacher had such a tremendous impact it changed Tendler's musical journey.
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