00:01Music is my language. It's part of me and part of my whole psyche.
00:06When I was accepted into the Curtis Institute, it felt like the beginning of the rest of my life.
00:12I was 14 years old. My teacher was 78. We spent hours one-on-one together.
00:19Abuse began, and it escalated.
00:22The dean shrugged and said, well, what do you want me to do about it?
00:25Who do you think they'd believe? Some kid? Or somebody who's been with this school for decades?
00:32The frustration turned into anger. I made the choice to go public.
00:37Hundreds wrote to me with very similar stories.
00:42Their voices had been silenced. Now, I'm making the world hear them.
00:48It happened almost every single piano lesson for a number of years.
00:53He touched my leg. I was still a student.
00:55Nobody said anything.
00:56Character assassination.
00:57I'm so trapped.
00:57He's great.
00:58Laughing stock.
01:00Everybody knew.
01:02We would find all these incidents where someone could have done something and didn't.
01:05Sexual harassment, sexual assault, exclusion of women. They're all related.
01:09If you know he's had his allegations, how on earth are you telling me you want to give him an
01:13award?
01:14They are only investigating allegations now that they've gone public.
01:18That's an institution that's not listening.
01:21Child sex abuse survivors are calling for lawmakers to act now.
01:25It's time for a window to justice.
01:33My whole life, as I can remember it, has been about music.
01:38I didn't react the right way at that time.
01:41Well, we were kids.
01:43I can't change what happened. Nobody can.
01:45But to make something out of it, to create change from grief and from horror.
01:50It's amazing that I didn't quit.
01:53And I never will.
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