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Hello. Christo one of the world's great landscape architects propose to do this wonderful piece in Central

Park to be 11000 arches with these saffron colored banners and I would outline all the pounce is a farce and we like to highlight one of the most fabulous I think you would give a New Yorker that will get an 18 year old like myself who feels there ready to be performing live and what I'm going to do over you going to go and knock on Columbia Management store and say look you know I'm really a good pianist you should hire me. No really I am. In order to get people to bookstores now if that something they really want which is coffee to museums are going to be weird. But actually that's why we have homes because they get books go together yes in your home. City Arts is made possible by Dorothy and Lewis Coleman Lou Esther T-Birds Charitable

Trust and Sylvia and Ralph Avalon funding is also provided by the Michael and Helen Shaefer foundation. The New York City Department of Cultural Affairs through the cultural challenge program and the members of 13. Public doesn't just make the super sized one of the sort of human one needs a space where you want to live there is something about the city of the same. Why don't we become the world's leading urban park is a very surreal place and we need artists to bring out the quality of the city reuses found find anywhere else in the world. It's a

very exciting prospect to look at the city as a canvas and give artists an opportunity to play with us. This is comedian I really like them Steven Wright who delivers his very dry one liners and one time I was watching him on television and he said I've got a map of New York. It's one to one scale you want to see it. And I think to myself that's what we do. Five years partner Pascal and I have been making a collaboration where Pascals printing street textures and manhole covers and my job is to document that process with my photographs. Step A is to find a manhole cover stead. B is Pascal ginks the manhole cover. Step C is. He puts the paper over and then step DA is a truck driver

runs it over and is essentially our pressman. We've done these projects with children who has been doing the process and then how do the laws is that document placed participants and the hard work to become to take his model friend with Michael on when Pascal and I make work at night. We go out guerrilla style in those situations since we don't have a truck. One of us very often is me because he's thinking rather than jump up on the running board of a garbage truck. Now say you want to make some are generally drivers are pretty entry and I've seen pretty good photographs of smiling truck drivers who can't believe that they just made a work of art and maybe someday is going to hang in a gallery or museum. We don't often think about this people people they use the city would tend to look at a welcome

think of it as coming in some kind of abstract but really on some people they use a city like anyone else. For example Chris Doyle is not only an artist he's a cyclist and he goes over and over the bridge. But the light on the bed on the monuments on Fifty seventh Street when we wanted to make a reference to those which did so well and so I'd like to hear what you hear when you read it when you also believe the idea of walking the boulder disbursing in the shoes was the most radiant. There's no question that there's a sense that people will use this bridge every day are getting a kick out of that they're really enjoying it so much it seems to be

working for them. I think that Chris Doyle has an element of beauty and magic but it's that element of surprise and it's also to provoke I mean public art is about discourse so it gets people talking and thinking OK it was pretty cool. It would have put a striking him. Not a good idea I think to say maybe I think this looks like a lot of fun. I think this is crazy it's a stupid idea. All right. So you've blown into a winner. OK. It is a place of Christo one of the world's great landscape architects propose to do this wonderful piece in Central Park to be 11000 arches with these saffron colored banners will be during for you and I would outline all the past of our life to highlight one

of the most fabulous New York up there walking will be just saw from me and from Fifty ninth Street to Harlem in Spanish and Eastern the right is really is a very simple culture and by to enjoy the project. Your water underneath the gates following the foot of walkways. We get involved which is an invitation to keep off the grass. So Christopher poses as he offers to pay for everything to cover the city's expenses. Give the city merchandising rights even it would be a great profit center for us. And we said no. We sit here and we've started going to these great works in Greenland in Australia

along the California coastline and we can't get a job in his hometown. We've got this great landscape this great city scape and we're losing a great opportunity to remind people what a special place it is. Each time we start a project we believe it would be a work of art of joy and beauty and the addition of that it would be the first time in our life that we do a project without they be judged and that is the real spirit of New York has never been to leave well enough alone it's always been to build something bigger to try something new or to do something Brasher. And the wonderful thing about these are projects is that they're temporary. The worst thing that happens is that it goes up and we don't like it. So ultimately when you look at these things my question is Why not. It's

really like an ecstasy. This is like ecstasy. Nothing else I can do really satisfy. You get an 18 year old

like myself who feels they're ready to be performing a lot. And what you going to do about it. Exactly what what what are you going to do you going to go and knock on Columbia Management store and say look you know I'm really a good pianist you should hire me. No really I am in a music school you just how to play music. They don't teach us how to get to the concept of how to is yourself in the music business. Music is an art but performance is a business. That's what I think it's less of a business than if we were dealing in computers or dealing in front of a hot product but nevertheless it does come down to being a bit. Usually commercial management only takes artists from whom you can get lots of money but you cannot do that from for example

a young musician. That's the difference I think between commercial management and young concertgoers management because Young concert artist management is not geared to make money. They're kind of like your performing parents you want to read this in my hand. This is just being chosen by Young Concert Artists is a very confident thing there is a lot of competition for a place on the roster now. We hear about 100 people you know everybody we're on it's basically the judges really decide on the basis of their own comps. I think cited by that person 10 years from now go out and buy

a ticket to hear this person. When I auditioned for I see I didn't I didn't really expect to get it and it was there when I woke up the next morning I said I want you to hold me that I actually won this thing. So I really felt this was the insurance that yes I'm going to be a concert pianist not what I hope to be a concert. Both of my managers try to book as many concerts as they can. They will call and say you've got to engage Santos she's a fantastic Soprano. No

matter how many concerts you try to book for an unknown artist you know every time we get a contract we're ready to jump up and down because it's very very competitive out there. I'm an alumni. I can look back and I can see how she has done this through so many years through decades. She's responsible for the first record contract I ever had. Thank God for it hadn't been for Susan I don't know. My recording career or whatever have been started. The track record is just unbelievable. My friends the Tokyo string quartet thank you so commend Dawn Upshaw Richard good pariah. I don't know where the list is endless. They stay with us for a minimum of three years.

But what happens is there's a moment where we've done practically everything we can and we want them to be with commercial management. We give them great artists on a silver platter. I wish it was the platter. Believe me it is not these days. It is not a platter. However they can dedicate themselves to being very close to the artist on their roster which is the smaller roster than we would have. Why not in music for the thrill of performance necessarily. The reason I want to be a performer is because of the thrill of performance. The reason I'm in music is because I love music more than anything. Basically I give my life for music. I don't think you'll ever find a classical musician who talks about retirement. If we're in good health and we have the ability to play and to learn and grow.

I think every musician wants to just keep doing it until they die. Yes. People

walking into this room take one look at it and said My God all this blood red. It's a little frightening. I've tried to work with the domestic order and how it fits into trying to calm the chaos in our life in one family and diaries is about that time that I worked as an elf at Macy's. And it begins on the day after Thanksgiving and it ends on Christmas Eve. Which was which is basically what else lives of you know went from teaching at a university to working as an elf which is that the big difference is the degree of respect that one is afforded here. Down time I

am sure you know a brief history of white music is a good chance for African-American performers to get up there and sing songs that we couldn't sing in the day in the 50s in the 60s. It's white music but there's a black flavor was the way. Oh yeah. I call the bookseller a ghost. His records are not. Can you really hear anything about a book so I would buy the book. We study the book. We sell the book.

It passes through our heads. We don't keep it. Community but you brought the computer here and I don't have a computer that is in my head. People say oh wow just a real bookstore for other people mostly younger say oh my god how could you find anything here. And it seems they don't have the patience to look around and see that each section is labeled by category or it doesn't occur to them that perhaps the person that works here may know may know the answer to what they're looking for or used bookstores. Sometimes seems like what's left over of humanity after the catastrophe. You know it's the stuff washed up on the beach. You feel you just begin to tango and sensation known as the brain. That's the German expression piggish given that it's a book that i f i n g e r hyphen should be this is P

E and G F u u a jail. Yeah that's the law in the used book stores are ruled by chance and that's their glory and their wonder. Right now we're in the rulebook which is our the Sourceforge Goulding and something we keep internally separates us from the store. This is she was working in the bookstore exciting for you. Is there something normal to let new folks coming in don't know. Let me start with the smallest one for selling right which is me TV nine Hazleton's all in Iraq. The school colors graphics history of the European war. In these first editions of paper the second folio of Shakespeare the heart starts beating the thing he spits and you feel start electrified collectors just love the stuff

I collected or curious or interesting or sometimes even beautiful editions of books that I very very much can have a real thought like that. Says don't sell this book is in its original binding. It's 450 years old like this and a baby after he's been kicked around form years if you recall one of the books been through fire and war and all sorts of disasters floods we have been away for a time I was one ounce. I don't hear collector is satisfiable. Look at that we're in 2002 or didn't 54 the decoration of the house. Yeah I got my books for those readers want me as they're all in mint condition but I have all of them. First English a custom of the country to

take. And every time one pass here it was closed at the beginning when I thought it was perhaps our project because it seemed too good to be true. I look at this sort of ability because of the mind. They have the books here. I have space to try to make congenial I have the works on the go on the wall. People can look at things read things sit on the sofa hang out smoke smoke sometimes. Everything I have here is out of print and kind of special. It's just a husband wife team a mother and son. Even better but I also have little else. Billy's mother and son have independently establish themselves as this has four levels. He looks like her. Depending on your cooking to kill your various mean friends I can do that without even trying. So is this family bowing.

If I want to go bowling I would put a family in my high school pep was mandatory. I was suspended because I got caught speaking at a pep rally. I'm still afraid in order to get people to bookstores now the feds sell them something they really want which is coffee. I don't know why this is a likely combination of people to museums are completely weird combination. That's why we have homes confit bugs go together yes in your home. It's not a thankless job and personally I think you get a great deal of pleasure out of it usually. And all of this that we've told you about is what makes our experiences in the rabbit business now over 50 years for him to enjoy. We

can't yell 15 year old John. So if he's been exposed to books well headline doesn't collect yet. That's still to come. She did not like July 3 the next time on city arts. If they would have to think of other artists that she wants him or is closest to. I would talk about the magic realist. That's really her world and to me it is the spirit of irreverence and freedom confrontation and provocation. The mischievous childish element that we all want to have daughter's face slap in the face of high art. God gave us all permission. A lack of respect making mischief. For

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