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In the early 1960s, Sandy Feldstein was a drummer with a popular jazz trio that worked the nightclub circuit in New York City. The trio was hot. They were offered a major recording contract. But Feldstein quit to become a music teacher.
"I got tired of going to bed at 4 in the morning," says Feldstein, who holds a Ph.D from Columbia University. "I guess I was never cut out to be a real swinger."
Today Feldstein is the top executive of CPP/Belwin Inc. of Miami, one of the nation's largest publishers of sheet music and musical instrument instruction books. Last year the privately held company rang up about $22 million in sales.
CPP/Belwin occupies a 200,000-square-foot building in northwest Dade County, where 200 employees handle every task involved in the production of sheet music, from composing arrangements on computer screens to running printing presses.
CPP/Belwin has published the musical creations of Gloria Estefan and the Miami Sound Machine, the Rolling Stones, Hank Williams Jr., Stevie Wonder and many other contemporary artists. In March, CPP/Belwin was bidding against several other publishers for the rights to print...