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BRIAN That element! And between you and me, I’ve seen livelier faces at Madame Tussaud’s. ERICA You’re saying I live in the waxworks? Like “Sunset Boulevard?” I wouldn’t go that far. BRIAN ERICA (as Norma Desmond) “I’m still big. It’s the music that got small!” Laugh. I’m having fun with you. BRIAN It’s not always easy to tell. I’m glad I got you out. Did my watch stop? ERICA BRIAN You realize a restoration like this normally takes days? ERICA Normality is one vice I managed to avoid. Would you care for more strudel? (ERICA offers a plate to BRIAN.) BRIAN I think I have maybe six kinds of toxic chemicals on my hands… Mmm, delicious. (ERICA forces a bite of strudel into his mouth. BRIAN cranes his neck and holds the violin far away from the flying crumbs.) BRIAN (continued) ERICA It will help you forget those cunning little white gelatinous cubes at dinner. BRIAN Tofu. My wife is into macrobiotics. This month. Ah, the happy homemaker. I wouldn’t say that. ERICA BRIAN ERICA 19
She isn’t happy? BRIAN She isn’t a homemaker. She’s a composer. Well, aspiring. She studied with Ussachevsky. ERICA (mildly impressed) Vladimir! Quite the ladies man, in his day. Vlad the Impaler, we called him! BRIAN He was 90 years old. On a walker. She’s very talented. Her cello composition won a national contest. ERICA Funny that didn’t come up over dinner. BRIAN It wouldn’t. She’s very modest. And you’re kind of… Not? ERICA BRIAN Your resume can be a bit... ERICA Intimidating? And how might you have finally familiarized yourself with my intimidating past? <strong>The</strong> Internet. I feel rather exposed. “A sonority of tone.” BRIAN ERICA BRIAN ERICA <strong>The</strong> New York Times - my Carnegie Hall debut! Critics liked to point out my tone. It wasn’t always a compliment. BRIAN I guess they thought that for a woman… ERICA It wasn’t ladylike? To hell with that! I always had a big tone. I’m an old-fashioned romantic. Ach, these young musicians today treat a violin like a porcelain figurine, as if it could burst into a thousand pieces at the merest touch. Where I come from the violin is first a folk instrument. No pampering. Play it loud over the noisy 20
Page 1 and 2: The Morini Strad by Willy Holtzman
Page 3 and 4: Time: The recent past Place: Manhat
Page 5 and 6: I’m just an artisan. ERICA I say
Page 7 and 8: ERICA No bother, to speak of. Of co
Page 9 and 10: Item? BRIAN ERICA Please. The toast
Page 11 and 12: ERICA He said the instrument wasn
Page 13 and 14: BRIAN Look at the tool marks on the
Page 15 and 16: The Tchaikovsky. What else? My sign
Page 17 and 18: Two remembers exactly what it was t
Page 19: ERICA Himself. The old crowd has go
Page 23 and 24: It’s not a crime. I see that sort
Page 25 and 26: I generally avoid artists at all co
Page 27 and 28: What’s that? ERICA BRIAN (taps hi
Page 29 and 30: How can I properly thank you? ERICA
Page 31 and 32: Three 30 Erica’s apartment. ERICA
Page 33 and 34: BRIAN Alright, alright. Well he see
Page 35 and 36: Time will tell. Aren’t you going
Page 37 and 38: follow. HE gets better as the dance
Page 39 and 40: ERICA This is the question! Why has
Page 41 and 42: Pushing people is what I do. I’m
Page 43 and 44: ERICA The vultures - they’re offe
Page 45 and 46: ERICA No, I feel it, too. Mozart, T
Page 47 and 48: Yes, I did have the Davidoff in my
Page 49 and 50: (agitated, confused) A flat over C.
Page 51 and 52: She moved on to a gluten-free diet.
Page 53 and 54: of an audience as musician tune up
Page 55: draws the bow across the strings an

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