While hustling back to his office Steve Lopez stumbles across Nathaniel Ayers, a homeless African American man coaxing beautiful music from a two-stringed violin. Over the next few days Lopez discovers that Ayers had been a promising string bass player who attended Julliard in the early 1970s. Los Angeles Times columnist,Lopez’s writing which relates the first two years of his friendship with Nathaniel Anthony Ayers is by turns harrowing, winsome, and inspiring. This powerful title at times brought tears to my eyes.

posted Feb 16, 2010 at 3:48PM

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