Pearls Before Breakfast: Can one of the nation’s great musicians cut through the fog of a D.C. rush hour? Let’s find out.
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Pearls Before Breakfast: Can one of the nation’s great musicians cut through the fog of a D.C. rush hour? Let’s find out.
don’t know of any such formal studies of working musicians, but I see the same patterns in artistic success. The happiest artists I know are generally the ones who can manage to make a reasonable living from their art without having to worry too much about the next paycheck. Not to say that every artist who sits around the campfire, or plays in tin
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Richner was also a cellist, and every Saturday night he gave a concert for tourists who were in town to see Angkor Wat.
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Debussy’s Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun or Tchaikovsky’s Romeo and Juliet.