Klarinet Archive - Posting 000506.txt from 1998/01

From: Mark Charette <charette@-----.com>
Subj: Re: Eb clarinet busker
Date: Sat, 10 Jan 1998 13:23:00 -0500

Melissa Norman wrote:
>
> What does busking mean?? If it means playing...why is it so amazing to see a
> blind woman playing? There have been composers and musicians who are blind ,
> deaf, and/or both.......

My easily accessable dictionary knows the meaning of busker ( a
street musician). Methinks you totally missed Peter's point,
though. A plastic Eb, haunting music (Balkanesque), a big Lab,
a blind woman, metro Toronto, cold, winter. Picturesque,
incongrouous.
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