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...briefcase (stuffed with documents setting forth the legal rights of street musicians) and a big display board on which was tacked a postcard which read: "You are certainly the most extraordinary virtuoso since Paganini ... If you can stop the abominable jazzers' practice of playing the saxophone as con sordino [i.e., muted] and as disorderly as possible, you will be a great benefactor as well as a great player...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Virtuoso | 7/9/1951 | See Source »

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