Sunday, March 7, 2010

The Vanishing Violinist

Interesting.

In the NYT.

2 comments:

Old NFO said...

Very interesting and telling of the pressure put on young proformers of all stripes...

Crucis said...

When I first entered college it was on a music scholarship. There was one guy in the same classes with me from Springfield. He was a composition and piano major. After four terms he left. He didn't go home. No one knew where he went. His parents filed a Missing Persons report. A few months later, the music department chair received a letter from him---from Austria as I remember. He was going to baking school to be a pastry chef. Said he never wanted to be a musician.