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MUSIC & MOURNING
MUSIC & MOURNING
MUSIC AND MEMORY MEET IN MORE THAN WAILS.
IN THIS PODCAST, JAZZ VOCALIST TAMAR
HONORS HER FATHER THROUGH SONG.
Listen to the podcast now >>
MUSIC AND MEMORY MEET IN MORE THAN WAILS.
IN THIS PODCAST, JAZZ VOCALIST TAMAR
HONORS HER FATHER THROUGH SONG.
Listen to the podcast now >>
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In this podcast, jazz vocalist Tamar Korn talks with Fortnight's Creative Director, Adam Nichols, about honoring her father through song. Tamar discusses World War Two, Judaism and her father's provenance as concert violinist. Tamar first established herself as lead vocalist of The Cangelosi Cards. The group—which paid melodic homage to jazz, bluegrass and folk music from the 1920s and 1930s—was a fixture at Banjo Jim's, a legendary but recently-shuttered East Village roots music venue.   |
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In 1969, Esquire asked a group of celebrities to give advice to the new generation. Satchmo, aged 69, wrote a letter entitled "Goodbye To All of You." His advice is still applicable to this and future generations. The last lines read:
"Just want to say that music has no age. Most of your great composers—musicians—are elderly people, way up there in age—they will live forever. There's no such thing as on the way out. As long as you are still doing something interesting and good. You are in business as long as you are breathing. Yeah.”
"Just want to say that music has no age. Most of your great composers—musicians—are elderly people, way up there in age—they will live forever. There's no such thing as on the way out. As long as you are still doing something interesting and good. You are in business as long as you are breathing. Yeah.”
Louis Armstrong, Louis Armstrong, in His Own Words: Selected Writings, ed. Thomas Brothers (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999) 190, Questia, Web, 11 Sept. 2011.
