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In 1990, the avant-garde jazz musician Sunshine Ra attained Dartmouth to collaborate with the school's jazz band, where Michael Lowenthal - an restless, 20-year-old mature - enjoyed trumpet. As rehearsals got underway and two musical worlds collided, Lowenthal battled with the improvisation that Sunshine Ra's sparse, yet religious, melodies demanded. In this essay, Lowenthal recounts his "otherworldly" experience with the famous jazz legend who said to be from Saturn. Michael Lowenthal is the author of four books: The Same Embrace, Avoidance, Charity Girl, and The Paternity Test. His brief stories have came out in Tin House, the Southern Review, and the Kenyon Review, and his nonfiction in the New York Times Magazine, Boston Magazine, the Washington Post, Out, and a great many other publications. The recipient of fellowships from the Loaf of bread Loaf and Wesleyan freelance writers' meetings, the MacDowell Colony, and the Massachusetts Cultural Council, Lowenthal has taught creative writing at Boston College and Hampshire College, and as the Picador Visitor Professor for Literature at Leipzig University. Since 2003 he has been a main faculty member in the low-residency MFA program at Lesley University. Ploughshares, the literary mag of Emerson College.
