See, spying on people can lead to good results!

[elettaria]

Janitor's Piano Talent Revealed

This isn't Good Will Hunting (a film I hated, by the way). This isn't a discovery of untutored genius. This is a man who studied at the Akademia Muzyczna and was a professional musician in his own country, having to take a low-paid, unskilled job because of the way immigrants are treated in this country.

Comments

[shreena.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure that that is the reason why he had to take an unskilled job. Is there any evidence that he tried to make it as a professional musician here but couldn't because he wasn't British?

I think it's more that being a professional musician is hard.

[elettaria.livejournal.com]

Quite possibly, although the fact that he was instantly signed up to quite a bit of professional work once he was "discovered" is suspect. It's the reporting style that annoyed me really, who knows what actually happened. I'm guessing that he had a bad time of it trying to get jobs through the usual channels on coming to the UK, and eventually had the luck to get attention paid to him by the right people.


...he's rather cute, too.