Word: listeners
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Several nights a week, Hunsberger sets up his guitar, microphone and amplifier a little before 7 p.m. in front of the Cambridge Trust Bank. After a short time, people watching the chess master, buying food in Au Bon Pain, or just walking along Mass. Ave. stop, listen, and sometimes begin to dance...
...Bigelow and Lorraine Saltre (classical guitar) -- Bigelow plays several times a week, sometimes with his wife Saltre. He plays at Charles Square and Holyoke Center. They says they perform classical music, contemporary spanish folk songs, and operatic arias "for the basic honesty of the situation. If people stay and listen it's because they like...
...wasn't a religious kid, although I was Bar Mitzvahed in a real Orthodox synagogue. The first four rows were filled with Jewish men in their 80s who sang the Haftarah along with me, so that whenever I forgot something all I had to do was listen -- they were way ahead of me anyhow. It was like having a hundred prompters. My mother observes the dietary rules now, but back then our family was storefront kosher. Whenever the rabbi left our house it was, "Strike the sets, remove the props." My mom and I were seafood nuts, but of course...
...instinct to create remains as long as one breathes," says an obscure Yiddish poet in one of these tales, and he obviously speaks for his author as well as for all the compulsive monologists who continue to pop up in and then dominate Singer's short stories. "Now listen," commands Aunt Yentl, who is overheard telling three different anecdotes, and only the dull or the terminally uninterested could possibly disobey...
...enough to poke fun at the music during the journey. The chance they take, nonetheless, is a big one, considering they are dealing with a genre they usually take no interest in. This sort of dialectic-bashing implies an experiment that is not quite apparent during the first listen...