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...painted white on the black background of the mechanical boxes on the roof, in such a way that anyone passing by the museum on the subway would see the phrase slowly come together to form the museum’s name right before the subway arrives in the adjacent station...
...December sky darkens as a stream of commuters in the Square tramples snow into slush and crowds the slippery steps of an escalator descending into the T station. They reassemble on the outbound platform, glancing at the tracks as an Alewife-bound train rumbles above. For a moment, the station falls silent. Then at once there is music, echoing off the crimson tiles and turning heads toward the rear of the platform...
...some, such as Jonathan Fixler, who regularly performs at Alewife station with electric guitar and tape loops, the precautions seemed unreasonable given the poor sound quality of most P.A. systems found in the subway stations...
...subway musicians continue to lobby against the ban on trumpets and drums, the performance curfew, and the exclusion of key venues from a list of designated performance spots: benches, pillars and station walls which are now marked with official stickers...
...years later, musicians formed the Subway Arts Guild, which set in place provisions for performance. Musicians would receive a free permit every 90 days and would claim venues on a first-come-first-serve basis (excluding the Harvard Square station, for which they vied by coin toss), according to Ingram...