Sisyphus

31 Jan 2012

Plato's Student

Gordon's life changes dramatically after visiting a gypsy fortune teller.

Gordon Fink looked in the bathroom mirror, muttering to himself, shaking his head, "You look like an old man,” he said, leaning over the sink, staring into his eyes, and took off his glasses then moved his face closer to the mirror, noticing the wrinkles...

Sisyphus

30 Jan 2012

Herman Podolsky and the Brahms' Violin Concerto

Herman fulfills a dream he had when he was sixteen to play the violin at Carnegie Hall

  When Herman Podolsky was nine years old, his parents bought him a violin and he began taking lessons at the Brooklyn Settlement House, a neighborhood community center for poorer children in the neighborhood. Isaac Mudnick, a violinist with the New York...