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Mandolin Player Wins MacArthur Award
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BarkellWH
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 Mandolin Player Wins MacArthur Award
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Chris Thile, a Mandolin virtuoso, is one of this year's 23 MacArthur "Genius" Award recipients. For those who may not know of the MacArthur Awards, they are granted annually to individuals in many different fields, from music to science to even more obscure activities. The award consists of US$500,000, and has no strings attached or restrictions. The recipient can do what he wants with it. Chris Thile once played with the group Nickel Creek.
A news story on Chris Thile follows below.
"CHICAGO - Mandolin player and composer Chris Thile learned the hard way that when you get a call from the 312 area code this time of year, you should probably answer the phone.
Thile is among 23 recipients of this year's MacArthur Foundation "genius grants," which are given in a secrecy-shrouded process. Winners have no idea they've been nominated for the $500,000 awards until they get the call, and nominators must remain anonymous.
Thile ignored the incessant phone calls from the foundation at first, thinking they were election-year robocalls. Then he received an ominous message: "Don't tell anyone about this call."
His tour manager searched for the number online and told him, "It appears to be from something called the MacArthur Foundation." It was a name Thile recognized.
"I think I must have turned white," he said. "I've never felt so internally warm. My heart was racing. All of a sudden, I felt very askew physically. I was trying to catch my breath. ... I thought, 'Oh my God, did I win a MacArthur?'"
The grants, paid over five years, give recipients freedom to pursue a creative vision. Winners, who work in fields ranging from medicine and science to the arts and journalism, don't have to report how they spend the money."
Cheers,
Bill
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And the end of the fight is a tombstone white,
With the name of the late deceased,
And the epitaph drear, "A fool lies here,
Who tried to hustle the East."
--Rudyard Kipling
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