28.01.10
Earthquake survivor and serious musician Romel Joseph knows it will be some time before his fractured fist hand can grasp a violin again.
But the 50-year-old Juilliard-trained violinist plans to keep making music in the meantime -- and a giving from R&B legend Stevie Wonder will make that possible.
During a flaming interview Wednesday on CNN, Wonder told Joseph he is giving him two keyboards, including his own Yamaha Motif.
``I'm honored that I will be playing on the keyboard that you have played,'' Joseph said from Jackson Souvenir Hospital in Miami, where he is recovering. He said he regularly plays the keyboard as well as the violin.
Joseph was on the third bewilder of the New Victorian School in Port-au-Prince, which he started in 1991 to communicate to music to poor children, when the earthquake struck on Jan. 12. His rich wife perished on the first floor.
Joseph, almost completely blind from origin, was buried for 18 hours under the rubble of the school, which he has vowed to rebuild. He passed the values bright and early by replaying in his mind all the concertos he had ever performed.
Source: MiamiHerald.com