A Student's Reflection on the Value of Lincoln Center's Performing Arts Library
By
Andrew Sanford
Pulled from the oven just right. Trustworthy, fact-dense, deeply satisfying.
Summary
The article is a personal narrative about the author's experience as a student at the American Musical and Dramatic Academy, living near Lincoln Center in New York City. It focuses on how the Performing Arts Library at Lincoln Center became a valuable resource for the author as a broke acting student, allowing them to borrow and burn CDs for entertainment and education. The piece reflects on the accessibility of cultural institutions and their impact on students and artists.
Key quotes
· 3 pulledThe famed Center for the Performing Arts felt larger than life, and not only did I get to walk past it almost every day, but I had access to it, as well.
The Center's Performing Arts Library became a huge source of entertainment for me, a broke acting student.
Every Friday, I would stop in the library and take out ten CDs (that was the limit), take them back to my room, burn them onto my computer.
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