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Bernie Williams has acted in bright lights before, but an performance at the beginning of next year could be its older one, even with four world series rings.
The former gardener of the New York Yankees downtown, a musician who attended the Scenic Arts High School while pursuing baseball dreams, will play in the famous Carnegie Hall on January 13 with the opera singer Jonathan Teelman.
Even after his game days ended in 2006, Williams returned to the music school and since then has played in large places, including Radio City Music Hall. He has even performed the national anthem against the same Yankee crowds that used to sing his name.
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The New York Yankee legend, Bernie Williams, performs the national anthem on his guitar before the game between the Chicago White Sox and Kansas City Royals on September 22, 2017, in a guaranteed rate field in Chicago, Illinois. (Pictures of Ron Vesely/MLB through Getty Images)
“I’m already starting to get butterflies in the stomach. I know this type [Tetelman] He is a veteran of these performances, “Williams told Pak Gazette Digital in a recent interview.” But I often make the analogy with baseball that you know how successful it is a baseball player: statistics, contracts and all that, your numbers and music is a bit difficult to say.
“And the only way I could discover how successful you are for the people you play with and for the places where you touch. So having Jonathan, collaborating with him and acting in this place, is just at the top of the list of any musician. So I feel extremely honored to be part of this process.”
Williams can have four world series rings and play under the brightest lights, but even he needs some tips before this performance.
“Good luck,” Tetelman joked. “We are prepared. We are prepared. We are prepared for anything. I think the stage is one of those things in which you never know what is going to happen. You never know how the audience will feel. You never know what will go wrong or go well in a piece, and just have to follow the current and simply feel the music and let it take it where it goes.”
Bernie Williams performs a sound verification before the start of the induction ceremony of the Baseball Hall in the Baseball Hall in Cooperstown, New York, on September 8, 2021. (Frank Becerra Jr/The Journal News via imagn content service, LLC)
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The famous said is that professional athletes die twice, but when Williams retired, he saw almost an immediate opportunity to pursue his other passion.
“My experience returning to school specifically for music was probably one of the best decisions I have made after baseball. I realized that I had a future in music probably as soon as I finished playing baseball with the Yankees,” said Williams. “We had a small controversial process with contract negotiations, and they were offering me a deal in the minor leagues and this and that. And I thought: ‘You know what, maybe it’s time for me to move away from all this and try to reinvent myself.’
“I already had this musical insect living in me for a while, and I thought: ‘Do you know what? Maybe I should explore the possibility of becoming something else.’ Although I really can’t call it a career, it is a second opportunity to do something that I really love in life and that is a passion of mine.”
Music and baseball are “a different muscle,” Williams said, but there are many comparisons.
The former New York Yankees, Bernie Williams, played the “Star Spangled Banner” on the guitar at the Howard J. Lamade stadium in Williamsport, Pennsylvania. (Al Tielemans /Sports Illustrated through Getty Images)
“There is a common place in which you really see all your hard work coming to fruition. You are part of a team in baseball that has to join, but it is not so different from this,” he said. “We are a team and we have many people behind us, it really supports us and we hope that this is a success. It is a different muscle, but at the same time, it is the same. A lot of hard work, being prepared, trusting their ability, not living too much in their mistakes, and just letting it tear it.
