Realizing he had to face the music, Cuéllar sat down at a bus stop to head home. 'As I'm waiting a car full of guys pulls up and there's a guy who I knew was a sax player in the high school band I had been in,' he recalls. 'He was surprised to see me with a sax. I said, 'I just bought it and I want to learn how to play.' He said, 'Get in the car, we're going to rehearsal.''
He managed to keep his hand in music until then, but when Cuéllar accepted a tenure-track position at the University of Colorado at Boulder, it receded.
Even though music has occasionally receded from his life, sometimes for long stretches, it's served as a guiding light for Cuéllar.
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