The Soloist: A Lost Dream, an Unlikely Friendship, and the Redemptive Power of Music

A moving story of the remarkable bond between a journalist in search of a story and a homeless, classically trained musician-now a major motion picture from DreamWorks starring Jamie Foxx and Robert Downey Jr. When Steve Lopez saw Nathaniel Ayers playing his heart out on a two-string violin on Los Angeles' skid row, he found it impossible to walk away. More than thirty years earlier, Ayers had been a promising classical bass student at Juilliard-ambitious, charming, and also one of the few ...