The movers get it out—a Steinway grand,half-rolled, half-carried to the street. A crowd,molecular, implicit, is at handalready. Music hovers meanwhile, proudto weave into the day its ideal strand.A pianist appears, hirsute and browedlike Rubinstein. Who would not understandthis may be Art? He . . . . Continue Reading »
The skies are sick, a feverish, jaundiced gray,malodorous with foul effluviadissembling skyline and the light of daycrepuscular, infernal opera. . . . . Continue Reading »
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