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Rich Glauber: Musical Bricoleur The French have a word that has no equivalent in English: bricoleur. A bricoleur is a man who makes something out of nothing, who takes on odd jobs, is a Jack-of-all-trades, fixes things using whatever’s on hand, and seems to accomplish his task through nothing short of magic. His repertoire is extraordinary, determined by the challenges he faces and then surmounts through his spectacular creativity. Rich Glauber is Eugene’s musical bricoleur. He has no equivalent. He is master musician, impresario, benign shaman and trickster. On a recent trip to Costa Rica, his performances were called “musica en accion”—music in action—a term that begins to capture a sense of Glauber’s magic. As he travels the globe—whether to Costa Rica, Israel, or Spain—he delights throngs and finds new ways to express himself in the universal language of music. Luckily, he makes Eugene the center of his universe. In the late ‘80s, Glauber was a founding