Word: musicians
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Reid, an Australian, got down on himself for trying to make a living in so frustrating a fashion. Then one night a banal but correct notion changed his life. "This is America!" was his thought. "They can't do this to me! It's against my constitutional rights!" The musician and the First Amendment double-teamed the court and won. These mornings you can catch him happily playing below-ground Bach at 59th and Lexington, where he says, "It's a free world down here...
Lloyd Carew-Reid, the street musician from Perth, is a squirrelly little guy, blond beard, soft speech, 37 years old, who lives on the rim of the Chelsea area of Manhattan in a dog-eared hotel where drug deals and muggings go down every month or so, where one mad woman thinks she's a rooster. His home environment to some would seem a nightmare; his work environment to most would seem hell. After a day of breathing the iron filings in the New York City subways, one would think he could blow his nose and sink a Hudson River...
...that feeling comes through." According to Shapiro, Sample can hear a piece and once or twice and pick it up. He seems to have perfect pitch, she says, but she credits him more for trying to improve his technique, which she says is usually very difficult for a natural musician. "He could always do it," Shapiro says, "but now he knows what he's doing, so he can do it even better." Sample agrees that Shapiro's course "gave me the tools" to create music that would better relect his feelings...
...spirit of those who never had the opportunity to receive a degree, but who have made it so possible for us to enjoy and learn in this place, on this holiday I salute you." Then, as toes tapped under the gently swaying elms on the green, the blind musician sang My Love and I Just Called to Say I Love...
...with art? The sprawling, sometimes rambling narrative indulges in an uncomfortable amount of kitchen psychoanalysis ("The only thing that can explain this man, with his chain smoking, pills, liquor, insomnia, and need for crowds, is incredible pain") in arguing that Bernstein's background has forged the schizoid musician, from slick tunesmith to leonine conductor, that he has become. In Peyser's view -- formed with the partial cooperation of Bernstein, who gave her permission to use some personal letters -- the works of the artist cannot be understood without taking into account the character...