A onetime prodigy, Mr. OConnor, 38, spent his teens and 20s moving - TopicsExpress



          

A onetime prodigy, Mr. OConnor, 38, spent his teens and 20s moving through successive musical environments, managing always to convey -- not through arrogance but through a surfeit of talent -- that he was only passing through. A decade ago he finally encountered a challenge big enough to last him for the rest of his career: forging what he calls a new American style, a musical vocabulary that makes full use of the classical tradition without sacrificing the folk and jazz that nourished him in his youth. -New York Times nytimes/2000/04/02/arts/music-fiddling-while-the-old-barriers-burn.html
Posted on: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 13:45:02 +0000

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