Boston Book Festival

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2011 Event Descriptions

Music Legends

1:45pm Boston Public Library Washington Room 700 Boylston Street

Two giants of our time will be the subject of this session. Bob Blumenthal talks about the world's greatest living saxophonist, Sonny Rollins, in his bio Saxophone Colossus.  Tim Riley discusses his new work, Lennon, The Man, the Myth, the Music: the Definitive Life. Join them and moderator William Banfield, author of Representing Black Music Culture: Then, Now, and When Again?