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...entered New York City's elite Juilliard School the following year and immediately began sitting in with bands at local jazz clubs. Pianist James Williams, 38, recalls the time that Marsalis, sporting an Afro and long sideburns, showed up at McHale's and sat in with drummer Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers. "Really, we were very excited," says Williams. "We all knew he was going to be great." Marsalis knew it too. "He wasn't arrogant; he was just so self-assured," says McCarthy, who was by then studying at Barnard College. "He knew that by meeting the right people...
...studied piano at the Juilliard School Pre-College Division for 10 years, said the group had two purposes: "both to raise money for the homeless and to give student musicians a chance to perform...
...native of Lexington Massachusetts, the Juilliard-trained pianist now lives in Vermont. He has performed with the Boston Symphony Orchestra twice and was recognized as a Presidential Scholar in the Arts...
...film chronicles the family's constant flight from the FBI. They move from city to city, changing their names and their identities each time. The central conflict occurs when Danny at the age of 17 Simultaneously falls in love and decides he wants to go to Juilliard. In what is obviously meant to be the film's Big Irony, Danny's parents are forced to choose whether to break up their family in the same way they did when they broke...
...disturbing, not only because it is emotionally manipulative, but also because it suggests that the Popes have forgotten that their sacrifice was a protest against bourgeois ideals. Annie goes back to her father, whom she once described as an "imperialist pig" for help in sending her son to Juilliard, which is a kind of bourgeois shrine. The scene could have been plausible if we had seen Annie struggle with these inconsistencies. Instead, her actions prove that the Popes are in no way different from any other middle-class family except that they occasionally make "socially aware" comments...