Editing Judy Collins (section)

===Beginnings===
[[File:Judy Collins Hootenanny 1963.jpg|thumb|upright|Collins during a 1963 appearance on ''[[Hootenanny (TV series)|Hootenanny]]'']]
Collins studied classical piano with [[Antonia Brico]], making her public debut at age 13 performing [[Piano Concerto No. 10 (Mozart)|Mozart's Concerto for Two Pianos]]. She also played [[Frédéric Chopin|Chopin]], [[Claude Debussy|Debussy]], and [[Sergei Rachmaninoff|Rachmaninoff]] as a child.<ref>{{cite news|first=Ellie|last=O'Byrne |url=https://irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/arid-30977085.html|title=The Songs that Matter Most to Judy Collins from Her 60-year Career|newspaper=[[Irish Examiner]]|issn=1393-9564 |location=Cork|language=en-ie|date=January 22, 2020|access-date=June 6, 2024}}</ref> Brico took a dim view of her developing interest in folk music, which led her to the difficult decision to discontinue her piano lessons. Years later, after she became known internationally, she invited Brico to one of her concerts in Denver. When they met after the performance, Brico took both of Collins' hands into hers, looked wistfully at her fingers and said, "Little Judy—you really could have gone places." Still later, she discovered that Brico herself had made a living when she was younger playing [[jazz]] and [[ragtime]] piano (''Singing Lessons'', pp.&nbsp;71–72). 

In her early life, Collins met many professional musicians through her father.<ref>{{cite book|last=Malkoski|first=Paul A.|title=The Denver Folk Music Tradition: An Unplugged History, from Harry Tuft to Swallow Hill and Beyond|year=2012|publisher=The History Press|isbn=978-1609495329|page=52}}</ref>

It was the music of [[Woody Guthrie]] and [[Pete Seeger]] and the [[Folk music|traditional]] songs of the [[American folk music revival|folk revival]] of the early 1960s, however, that kindled Collins' interest and awoke in her a love for [[lyrics]]. Three years after her debut as a piano [[Child prodigy|prodigy]], she was playing guitar. Her first public appearances as a folk artist after her graduation from Denver's East High School were at Michael's Pub in [[Boulder, Colorado]] and the folk club Exodus in Denver. Her music became popular at the [[University of Connecticut]], where her husband taught. She performed at parties and for the campus radio station along with [[David Grisman]] and Tom Azarian.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,526497,00.html|title=Time "Striking a Chord"|magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]]|access-date=August 20, 2021|archive-date=March 19, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200319133053/https://time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,526497,00.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>