Word: musicians
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Suicide in B-Flat is nominally concerned with the death/suicide/hoax of Niles--a Pynchon-like musician whose experimentations with sound and composition have rocketed him so far into the stratosphere that he can barely exist on the mere surface of the planet anymore. Two detectives, Louis (Christopher Randolph) and Pablo (Christian Clemenson) come in out of the mainstream and attempt to reconstruct the crime. What follows is a collage of random psychic violence and free association, philosophy and claptrap, all so intricately conceived that to follow it in any sort of literary sense is ridiculous. They talk about Shepard writing...
...Veterans Administration Medical Center lie low among acres of vacant grass in the hot afternoon sun of California's San Fernando Valley. In the lobby of Building Four, some men in their 30s congregate, self-consciously checking their watches. One is a musician; another a Los Angeles policeman; two are unemployed; two have police records. They have only one thing in common: Viet...
...cocaine, all by itself, can be nightmare enough for many. "Of all the drugs I've ever done, the weirdest, because of its effects upon you, is cocaine," says a musician in Key West, Fla., who has also had experience with heroin and other drugs. "Cocaine is so subtle in the way it takes over your personality. I went through a year when I did more coke than most people will ever do in a lifetime. I went from weighing 188 Ibs. to 150 Ibs. The first time I did it, I was into heroin, so I cooked...
...performances during the two-week contest in Fort Worth were strictly center court. Impressed by his emotionally spare, but powerful and nearly flawless technique, the eleven-member international jury gave the Paris-born, Brooklyn-raised musician the nod over 38 other entrants. A victory on the high Cs is nothing new to Schub-in 1974 he won the Naumburg competition and three years later the Avery Fisher Prize-but the Van Cliburn win carries a $ 12,000 cash award, a recording contract and two years of solo and concerto appearances...
There was at one time a real serious musician (in him) and that's the part of him that everyone lost sight of, including himself. And I don't think he was ever completely at peace with himself because of that...