[Oe List ...] Death of an Artist

[Sandra/Bob True]

Ella Fitzgerald is also on the list. Because of my love for Ella I  
lived jazz singers Lena Horn among them. Saw her perform at a Jazz  
Festival in CA many years ago. Truely great!

Sandra


On May 10, 2010, at 11:47 AM, Pamela Bergdall <pbergdall2 at yahoo.com>  
wrote:

> Thanks for alerting me Randy.  I hadn't seen that Lena died.  I  
> agree with what you say.  Pam
>
> From: R Williams <rcwmbw at yahoo.com>
> To: Order Ecumenical Community <oe at wedgeblade.net>; dialogue-request at wedgeblade.net
> Sent: Mon, May 10, 2010 7:36:36 AM
> Subject: [Oe List ...] Death of an Artist
>
> Today I noted with sadness the death of singer and actress Lena  
> Horne at the age of 92.  She was, in my opinion, one of the great,  
> if not the greatest, song stylist of our time.  Her rendition of  
> "Stormy Weather," from the movie of the same title, is arguably the  
> greatest popular vocal of the 20th century.
>
> One of the lilting lyrics from the opening number of her night club  
> act keeps running through my head:
>
> "...today I love everybody,
> Everybody I see.
> And today I state
> I think all folks are great,
> Including them that are not."
>
> Lena and others like her have contributed to the civilizing process  
> and cultural enlightenment of the globe and, one way or another, to  
> ours and other movements for whom music and singing is important.   
> She is in company with the likes of Ethyl Waters, Louis Armstrong,  
> Ray Charles, Peggy Lee, Tony Bennett and others whom you would  
> perhaps include.
>
> Randy
>
>
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