Mike Petrone

Just doing my job.

Many thanks to photographer Michael Wypasek for this photo from Sunday nights event. If you’re looking for an event photographer, call him!

I met 13-year-old pianist Mikey Klein at Johnny’s Downtown a few weeks ago, and heard him play. Here is the amazing story of his path to an upcoming Carnegie Hall performance by classical music writer Kevin McLaughlin for thelandcle.org

“Just do it”: Lakewood eighth-grader heads to Carnegie Hall – The Land For all the high-profile performances, Mikey Klein’s approach to stage fright is disarmingly straightforward. “I just tell myself, stop being scared. Just do it,” he says. “I don’t try to say, ‘Oh, it’s going to be okay.’ I just say, ‘Go up there, stop being scared of it, just do i...