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Los Angeles Musician Reaches Out to City's Homeless
Vijay Gupta is known to classical music lovers across the United States.
Gupta serves as first violinist for the Los Angeles Philharmonic. In that job, he often plays to large crowds, including many very rich people.
When he is not performing, he organizes concerts for homeless people. "They have reminded me why I became a musician," he said.
Last week, Gupta was recognized for being a founder and the artistic director of Street Symphony. The group has performed at homeless shelters, jails and halfway houses for about eight years.
Gupta is among the 25 winners of the 2018 MacArthur Fellowship, commonly known as the "genius grant." Each winner will receive $625,000 over five years to use as they wish.
The money is coming from a private group, the John D. and Katherine T. MacArthur Foundation. It awards grants to people whose work it considers exceptional and that "inspires hope in us all."
Gupta said he got the idea for Street Symphony while teaching Nathaniel Ayers, a trained musician whose mental illness led to homelessness. Ayers' life was the basis for the movie "The Soloist."
"I grew up around mental illness," Gupta said, noting that he has experienced it himself.
The 31-year-old grant winner said he does not know yet how he will spend the money. He has been a performer since age seven and the award will give him "space to breathe, plan and look ahead."
Another winner is Rebecca Sandefur, an associate professor of sociology and law with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Sandefur said she was shocked to find out she had won a MacArthur Fellowship.
The Associated Press says her research actively supports new ways to involve poor communities in the U.S. justice system.
47-year-old Sandefur created the first national mapping of civil legal aid providers. It shows which states had the financial resources to provide such aid and which did not.
She also found that the cost of legal services is only one of the things preventing poor people from getting lawyers. Among the others are fears about unfairness in the legal system.
Sandefur noted that a lot of attention has been paid to problems with the criminal justice system. But she said that more attention must be paid to the civil side of the law, which also affects millions of people.
In civil law, a person could lose their home, be unable to see their children after a marriage ends or be denied unemployment money, she said.
Sandefur said the award would be important in advancing her work.
Another MacArthur recipient is William J. Barber II, who leads Greenleaf Christian Church in Goldsboro, North Carolina. He also set up a leadership development organization called Repairers of the Breach. In 2017, Barber began a series of "Moral Monday" demonstrations near the North Carolina state Capitol building. The goal was to protest economic and racial inequalities, such as laws preventing people from voting.
On the day the award was announced, the clergyman was taking part in a "Fight for $15" wage protest outside of the Chicago headquarters of McDonald's. Barber was arrested at the protest. He told The Associated Press that the MacArthur honor just means he has more work ahead of him, not less.
"They don't share these grants so that you sit down. They hope and believe you will do more things," said Barber.
I'm Alice Bryant.
重点解析
1.classical music 古典音乐
Classical music has revived recently.
近来古典音乐又流行起来。
2.sit down 坐下
They should sit down to talk out their differences.
他们应该坐下来通过商谈来消除他们之间的分歧。
3.justice system 司法系统
Drug Treatment is sometimes a part of the criminal justice system.
药物治疗有时是刑事司法制度的一部分。
4.set up 建立
I set up a ginger group on the environment.
我建立了一个积极从事环保的组织。
5.On the day the award was announced, the clergyman was taking part in a "Fight for $15" wage protest outside of the Chicago headquarters of McDonald's.
taking part in 参与
Only by taking part in practice can the young people be toughened and hardened into steel.
年轻人只有通过实际锻炼才能百炼成钢。
Paramilitary police units are taking part in rescue efforts.
准军事警察部队正在参与营救行动。
6.In 2017, Barber began a series of "Moral Monday" demonstrations near the North Carolina state Capitol building.
a series of 一系列的
The students have put forward a series of questions.
学生们提出了一系列问题。
A series of technical foul-ups delayed the launch of the new product.
一系列技术问题延误了新产品的上市。
参考译文
洛杉矶音乐家帮助城市的流浪者
维贾伊·古普塔（Vijay Gupta）为美国古典音乐爱好者熟知的人物。
古普塔是洛杉矶爱乐乐团的首席小提琴手。这份工作经常需要他为众多观众演奏，包括许多非常富有的人。
当他没有演奏的时候，他为那些无家可归的人举办音乐会。他说，“他们时刻提醒着我成为一名音乐家的初衷”。
上周，古普塔被公认为街道交响乐的创始人和艺术总监。该组织在收容所、监狱和中途之家演出了约8年。
古普塔是2018年麦克阿瑟奖学金的25位获奖者之一，该奖通常被称为“天才奖学金”。每位获奖者将在五年内获得62.5万美元，供其任意使用。
这些奖金来自私人组织约翰（John D.）和凯瑟琳·麦克阿瑟基金会（Katherine T. MacArthur Foundation）。该奖项向那些拥有杰出才能且“激励着所有人的希望的”人提供奖金。
古普塔说，他在教授纳撒尼尔·艾尔斯（Nathaniel Ayers）时萌生了街头交响乐的想法，纳撒尼尔·艾尔斯是一位专业的音乐家，他因精神疾病无家可归。电影《独唱者》是以艾尔斯的生活为基础创作的。
“我在精神疾病的环境中长大”古普塔说，并指出他自己遭受过这种疾病的困扰。
这位31岁的获奖者表示，他还不知道如何安置这笔奖金。他从7岁起开始表演，该奖项让他有了“喘息、计划和展望未来的空间。”
另一位获奖者是伊利诺大学香槟分校的社会学和法学副教授——丽贝卡·桑德福尔（Rebecca Sandefur）。桑德福尔表示，得知自己获得麦克阿瑟奖学金，她非常惊讶。
美联社称，她的研究积极地为贫困社区参与美国司法系统提供了新途径。
47岁的桑德福尔创建了首个民事法律援助提供者的国家地图。该地图可显示哪些州拥有提供此类援助的财政资源，哪些州没有。
她还发现，法律服务的费用只是阻碍穷人寻找律师的因素之一。其中还包括对法律体系不公平的担忧。
桑德福尔指出，刑事司法系统中的问题引起了广泛的关注。但她说，必须更多地关注法律的民事方面，这也影响到数百万人。
她说，在民法中，一个人可能会失去家庭，离婚后无法探望自己的孩子或无法获得失业救济金。
桑德福尔表示，该奖项对于推进她的工作非常重要。
麦克阿瑟奖另一位获得者是威廉·巴伯，他领导着北卡罗来纳州戈尔兹伯勒的格林利夫基督教会。他还成立了一个名为“违约行为修理者”的领导力发展组织。2017年，巴伯在北卡罗来纳州议会大厦附近发起了一系列“道德星期一”示威活动。其目的是抗议经济和种族不平等，例如一些法律禁止公民投票。
颁奖当天，这位牧师正在参加麦当劳芝加哥总部外的“争取15美元工资”的抗议活动。巴伯在抗议中被逮捕。他告诉美联社记者，麦克阿瑟奖项的荣誉只是意味着他有更多的工作要完成，而不是就此止步。
巴伯说，“他们赠予补助金不是为了让你“坐山吃空”。他们希望而且相信你会做出更多的贡献”。
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