Epstein Secrets

plays this musical instrument by rubbing his fingers around the tops of those wine glasses. Audiences gather spontaneously to here his rendition of a Mozart sonata or a ragtime melody or the theme from Chariots of Fire. There are breakdancers who bring their own personal linoleum-floor sections, and a jo

ed a document before, but my anger overshadowed my fear. | chose Nina Totenberg because | had come to trust her reporting about the Supreme Court on National Public Radio. | honestly had no idea what leaking the affidavit would accomplish. | certainly did not envision that it would literally embarrass the Senate into d

o firms. I got standard royalties from sales, not amounting to much, and they got the rest. Six published pieces by age 31 would not have impressed Mozart or Schubert. By lesser standards, it was a pretty good start. There are distinguished composers who have never found a publisher. Tomorrow the world!

ould tell her story in 31 of her poems, one in two different settings, in my cycle “The White Election.” It was completed in 1981, and broadcast on National Public Radio two years later. It seems to have made a good impression. Slava Rostropovich had kind words, and invited me to write something for cello and orchestr

nd The Atlantic Monthly; and as a commentator on National Public Radio. He is now a columnist for The New York Times an

ine, Mark O’Connor, and other notable musicians. Block currently plays with the Silk Road Ensemble. He has appeared on Late Night with Conan O'Brian, National Public Radio’s St. Paul Sunday, Regis and Kelly, VH1, the Disney Channel, WNBC-TV with Chuck Scarborough, and the CBS Early Show. Block is most famous for playing

Thelonious Monk, and I haven’t heard anybody yet who has come after him.” Born in Chicago in 1940, Herbie was a child piano prodigy who performed a Mozart piano concerto with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at age 11. He began playing jazz in high school, initially influenced by Oscar Peterson and Bill E