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...Lines B through E screech cacophonously past waiting passengers. A middle-aged man strolls in with a dolly full of wires, batteries, an amplifier, a microphone and a guitar. He begins to construct his stage against the back wall of Dunkin' Donuts. Eric Talerico is a 42 year-old musician who has played in Boston subway stations for nearly 10 years. Once a private school teacher, Talerico moved to Boston in search of another classroom, but found himself on platforms instead. Performing in the subways became a full-time job. He works 40 hours a week, usually for six hours...
...Jazz guitarist Pat Metheny is in a unique position among musicians. This Boston native is one of the most virtuosic jazz performers alive today, and yet it seems as though he'd do much better at almost any other profession. He has a greater narrative sense than nearly every other musician on the market and his compositions can reach heights of lyricism unparalleled in contemporary jazz...
...Stiller, who acts, directs, writes and for all we know works as a U.N. peacekeeper on weekends, explores "What Will Make Us Laugh?" Two artists, musician Moby and director Julie Taymor, offer radically different visions of their world, with Moby turning us all into composers and Taymor predicting that what we will really crave in 2025 is the wild, exhilarating experience of leaving behind our computers and TVs on a Saturday night and going to...the theater. "Artists were especially turned on by our assignment," Zoglin says. "They love grappling with the question of how technology will...
True, it's not Johnny Cash or Bob Dylan, but it at least deserves to give Shania Twain a run for her money. On Getting There, there's a version of "Jersey Girl" by Tom Waits, a musician who has managed to forge an acting career with an ounce of grace; perhaps some day we can play Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon with musicians rather than just actors...
...like an almost useless thing to do, it would seem to be just for people to look at, and be great treats for people's imaginations. But I think it is a good thing to be doing with my life. Sometimes I wish I was a writer or a musician because that's much more immediate, especially for somebody who can sing or has a beautiful voice. Nobody ever worries about what a piece of music means or why they wrote it. Usually they're allowing it to play on their senses and their encounter with the music. While...