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Subject: Re: [Mellotronists] Is this the truest meaning of devotion to your craft?

From: Don Tillman <don@...>
Date: 2005-08-23

> From: lsf5275@...
> Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 21:27:07 EDT
>
> On Nov. 18, 1995, Itzhak Perlman, the violinist, came on stage to
> give a concert at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center in New York
> City.

According to snopes.com, the urban legends web site, the story is not
true.

But so what? It's a great story and it's very inspirational. And
Itzhak Perlman is certainly an inspirational musician. And assuming
for the moment that the story is fiction, it is a testament to
Perlman's character and accomplishments that he was chosen as the
subject of the story.

And underneath it all is the understanding that true artists often
happily embrace limitations.

-- Don

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Don Tillman
Palo Alto, California
don@...
http://www.till.com