The Justice Department goes on to argue, with rare eloquence for a legal brief, "An artist cannot be forced to paint, a musician cannot be forced to play, and a poet cannot be forced to write".
Thus, the additional effect of the exposure to play a musical instrument by a musician cannot be evaluated, if an age and sex matched control group is absent.
The role these musicians played cannot be overstated.
"In Latin America, as a musician, you cannot be indifferent to reality, and these three people are a case in point," Mr. Golijov said.
A merger might save cash, but musicians are municipal employees who cannot be sacked.
This does not necessarily involve artistic talents, as we all cannot be writers, musicians, poets or artists.
The meal doubles as a trial of Konrad, an almost mute defendant in the face of Henrik's prosecution, which minutely re-examines their schooldays at a military academy, the years leading up to Konrad's vanishing and his unmilitary character: "One cannot be a musician and a relative of Chopin and escape unpunished".
The brilliance of the A.A.C.M.'s first generation of artists, and their importance to the creative practice of musicians worldwide in the ensuing decades, cannot be overstated — neither can Abrams's role as the organization's co-founder, president, guiding light, and spiritual center.
Musicians who became famous after age 27 cannot be part of the 27 club, but their data are still useful for estimating the overall mortality curve.
