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| Author: | James Orr [ Wed Apr 18, 2007 8:29 am ] |
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"When you play for ticket-holders," Bell explains, "you are already validated. I have no sense that I need to be accepted. I'm already accepted. Here, there was this thought: What if they don't like me? What if they resent my presence . . ." A great story about one of the best violinists in the world, playing for busy rush-hour riders and not even getting noticed... http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04 /04/ AR2007040401721.html "The poet Billy Collins once laughingly observed that all babies are born with a knowledge of poetry, because the lub-dub of the mother's heart is in iambic meter. Then, Collins said, life slowly starts to choke the poetry out of us. It may be true with music, too." "Most people, they play music; they don't feel it," Tindley says. "Well, that man was feeling it. That man was moving. Moving into the sound." "For many of us, the explosion in technology has perversely limited, not expanded, our exposure to new experiences. Increasingly, we get our news from sources that think as we already do. And with iPods, we hear what we already know; we program our own playlists." |
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| Author: | James Orr [ Wed Apr 18, 2007 8:30 am ] |
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There are a lot of layers to the story, and it's pretty long, but good. Print it out and read it in chunks. |
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| Author: | Bob Long [ Thu Apr 19, 2007 4:58 am ] |
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The article is no longer there, James... Sounds interesting though. Long |
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| Author: | James Orr [ Thu Apr 19, 2007 10:15 am ] |
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Ah! Thanks for letting me know. I just checked this one. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04 /04/ AR2007040401721.html |
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| Author: | Scott Thompson [ Fri Apr 20, 2007 5:26 am ] |
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04 /04/AR2007040401721.html |
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| Author: | 1bordeaux [ Fri Apr 20, 2007 11:31 pm ] |
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Actually, I think I'll take a break... and play my guitar... once I wipe off some of the dust!!!!!! Wow! thanks! Paul |
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| Author: | Bob Long [ Sat Apr 21, 2007 10:25 am ] |
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Thanks James! Long |
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