suddenly transfixed by what he was seeing. He poked his head out the car window trying to “take in” every last Tribeca sight! I still remember him exclaiming at the barren cityscape, “A -MAZING! It is absolutely desolate! There is no one here! A- MAZING!”
Tribeca in the 1970’s If this were a movie you might suddenly hear music by Erik Satie on the soundtrack ( or at least “Bourreaux de solitude” from “Le Marteau sans maître”)!
It wasn’t a movie, though. It really happened.
Then my bubble burst. One day in February a Juilliard bass student came up to me and asked, “Did you see the ad in the Local 802 Allegro magazine? There’s an opening in the bass section! Did you know about this? ” I didn’t and when I went in to play the Philharmonic concert that evening, I asked around. Musicians in the orchestra said things like, “We already knew about the audition but since you’re doing such a great job there is nothing for you to worry about! Relax! You don’t even have to play “prelims” if you don’t want to.” I couldn’t “relax” and here’s why. In the first audition, I was a student with nothing to lose. I ended up playing the best audition of my life. Now, some six months later, my mindset had changed. I was a working musician now and I was risking “losing face” in front of my colleagues!
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