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Concerto in Beans and Rice
… shotgun here.” Suddenly, the synthesized sounds of an orchestra filled the room. “The first movement is called Beans,” D’Rivera said. “Beans are what they used to feed the slaves in Cuba. No meat. Just beans. This is the most jazzy, African movement and reflects who I am.” Shades of Gillespie’s early experimentation with …
Read MoreRevenge of the Nerds
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Stitching History
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Get Rich or Die Trying
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Imaginary Trips to Real Places
… skin
of my father
all day swinging a machete
in the sun,
I want the ungodly
way the women
would watch him work
through his troubles
to feed me,
fat boy who ate too much
because a dog was his mother
and both of them ate the sun.
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When the Chicken Hits the Fan
… up in the town of Mayfield (New Yorker subscription required)
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Wagner in the Afternoon
… Boston Symphony concert devoted to Wagner. Even the promise of encountering high art again, that world of her long-departed youth, does not rouse her from her somnambulant state. Timid and absentminded, she suddenly remembers, soon after entering the concert hall, that she’s neglected to leave feeding instructions concerning a troublesome calf, and that
Read MoreThe Floral Gospel
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Voicing a Legend
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Go Fish
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