City for Conquest Page #3
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should give me change. Fifty cents.
What about the two dollars from last month?
- Mama said it should be just on account.
- Say, Danny, got any change?
- How much you need?
- Half a buck.
There it is.
- Give this to Mama with my compliments.
- Okay.
Oh, yeah. And Mama says when you
gonna give me a piece to learn?
She says to tell you she
likes "The Blue Danube."
So do I. That's why you're
not gonna play it yet, Sydney.
Okay.
I don't know why I keep giving that kid
lessons. He throws the piano out of tune.
You get it from Sydney. I
get it from the traffic cops.
- How's your music
coming, Eddie? - So-so.
Look, Danny.
I wanted to ask you if there's a
chance of getting a job with your boss.
- For who?
- Me.
- You?
- Yeah.
- Driving a truck?
- Or a helper, till I got a license.
Are you nuts? Another year,
you'll be through music school.
- What?
- What about your scholarship?
- Yeah, they cut it in half.
- Gotta pay the rest in cash.
- What happened?
Like everything else, donations
slowing up, so they cut expenses.
It's no use, Danny. I've got
But when will you find time
to work on your own music?
- I'll find it sometime at night.
- You'll be all worn out.
Besides, you might even hurt your hands
shoving those cases around on the truck.
- How much you gonna need for that school?
- And it might just as well be 150,000.
- Look here, Eddie.
I don't wanna hear any more talk like that.
- Well, I wanna finish, Danny...
...and I wanna finish my own music too.
You know I've been
working on it every minute.
Here, look. I've even
got a new idea on it now.
To make it into a symphony of New York.
The song of the magic
isle, a city for conquest.
A full symphony of it, with all
its proud, passionate beauty...
...and all of its sordid ugliness
and of its great wealth and power...
...and its everlasting hunger.
And of its teeming seven millions
and its barren loneliness.
Here, listen, Danny. It starts
with that part that you like.
That part that I call "The East River"...
...with the rumbling el over Allen
Street with its crowded gutters and slums.
With all of its mounting, shrieking jungle
- cries for life and sun.
And then carrying on the theme
up to the towering skyscrapers...
...and the story of all those who
tried to scale their dizzy heights...
...but crash, frustrated and
broken, to the concrete pavements.
And then of those few who
finally reach the top...
...only to find out that above them
are still the unattainable stars.
Gee, Eddie, you have ideas like that
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