Lurie's friend Rebecca Wright, who lived upstairs from him, said, "The block was a river of men with knives in their teeth, a crack corral visited by all the drag queens from uptown, and in the middle of it John was taking baths in the tub in his kitchen and practicing his saxophone in his boxer shorts, slippers on his delicate musician's feet".
Looking at Picasso's cubist portrait "Girl with a Mandolin", one critic might see a jumble of lines and angles, while another perceives a delicate young musician.
The issue is more delicate for classical musicians, who have been reluctant to accept that their profession can lead to hearing loss, even though studies have shown that to be the case.
These dazzling yet remarkably delicate folk dancers and musicians, from the birthplace of George Balanchine, will present dances reflecting traditional weddings, harvests, sword fights and games.
If you're worried about guests ignoring these boundaries, hire some people to protect especially important areas, such as fountains, private rooms, musicians or delicate garden areas.
He was a delicate, fluent samba player, and in the mid-1950's was used extensively both as a musician and as a composer by Dick Farney, the Brazilian Sinatra-like crooner.
Exceptional young musicians are often delicate seeds; they need teachers with special talents to make them grow.
"We always had the impression that foreign musicians are very delicate people," said Natalya Voinova, assistant concertmaster of the Moscow Symphony.
Inspired by a trip to Indonesia following 2004's tsunami, and a subsequent dream she had on a long-haul flight that involved the plane being overwhelmed by a wave of dead bodies, Earth Intruders is a brilliantly bold fusion of harrowing imagery ("Mud graves! Timber! Morbid trenches!") with extrovert, tribal-infused big beats and the delicate, metallic-sounds of Congolese musicians Konono No 1.
But the hold of an aircraft is not a delicate environment, and a professional musician should put his guitar somewhere else.
