The Music Of The Yellow Brass

January, 1959

The Music of the Yellow BrassEven Now he could not believe it, so quickly had it happened, so unexpectedly, and after so many years. How many? Juanito tried to remember. Three. No; four. Four years of sleeping in filthy boxcars, on park benches, on the ground with only his dirt-stiffened cape for protection against the angry winds; of stealing and, when he could not steal,begging; of running in the path of impresarios ("Next year!") -- and all the long nights, dreaming. And now. Now. N...