Sublime

the Providence String Quartet developed its innovative urban residency, Community MusicWorks (http://www.communitymusic works.org), over ten years ago in Providence, Rhode Island. Violinist/violist Sebastian Ruth founded Community MusicWorks on the conviction that musicians have an important public role to play in creating and transforming

These were his people. Failed artists. Rejected musicians and writers. Part-time idealists and closet visionaries. As a young man, he’d been an idealist in a corrupt world. It was no surprise that he’d turned out equally as corrupt, just a new and different form of corrupt.

Je m’adonnais à des espiègleries bon enfant, comme de pousser légèrement une porte entrouverte afin d’apercevoir le piano à queue de Virgil Thompson, ou de rôder devant la plaque d’Arthur C. Clarke dans l’espoir de le voir émerger tout à coup. De temps à autre, je tombais sur Gert Schiff, l’universitaire allemand, armé de volumes sur Picasso, ou

The Marvin Hamlisch. Who’d been accepted into the Juilliard School Pre-College Division shortly before he turned seven years old. Who’d started his incredible music career as the rehearsal pianist for Barbra Streisand in Funny Girl and written a song for Liza Minnelli’s debut album when he was a teenager. Who’d written the score for A Chorus Line

Our personal heroes were Seals and Crofts, the folky, long-haired, mandolin-rockin’ duo that sang “Summer Breeze” and “Hummingbird” and were quite vocal about their Baha’i Faith.

David’s band was one of the few from the early 2000s emo-punk scene with any moral compass pertaining to underage girls, something I would only realize in hindsight. Being in high school did not deter other musicians in the scene from inviting us backstage, or inviting us on their tour buses, or inviting us into their hotel rooms. One time, a bass