Around the age of fourteen he started to develop asthma. He sought tutoring from a neighbor who played the trumpet, and soon became very good. Around the age of twelve his Boy Scout troop needed a bugler, so Farkas volunteered for the job. (March 5th is known by many as the Horn Duumvirate Date, as it was the birth date of both Farkas and Barry Tuckwell, two great horn players of the 20th century.) While his parents were ignorant about music, his mother encouraged him to take piano lessons this was Farkas’ first introduction to music. On March 5, 1914, Farkas was born in Chicago to Anna Cassidy Farkas and Emil Nelson Farkas.
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