Nina Simone and the clichés of the musical biopic
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- Wednesday, 04 May 2016
Simone was trained as a classical pianist in her home town of Tryon, North Carolina, and moved to New York for a year’s study at Juilliard (with the great Carl Friedberg, who had known Brahms), with the intention of auditioning for the Curtis Institute of Music, in Philadelphia, which, unlike Juilliard, taught its students tuition-free.