Re: Katrina: another musical victim


"Andrew Clarke" <ajc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Steven de Mena wrote:
>> "Andrew Clarke" <ajc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>> news:1126662203.557568.176470@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> > >From the Daily Telegraph, London:
>> >
>> > Clarence 'Gatemouth' Brown
>> > (Filed: 12/09/2005)
>> >
>> > Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, the musician who has died aged 81, was a
>> > virtuoso guitar, violin and harmonica player, while being equally at
>> > home with the mandolin, viola and drums; his musical influences were
>> > just as eclectic, and he would weave together a unique blend of jazz,
>> > blues, country, swing and Cajun music to create what he called
>> > "American music, Texas style".
>>
>> Was he a victim of Katrina, or just died soon afterwards?
>>
>> Steve
>
> He was a victim of Katrina in that he lost all that he had, including
> his musical instruments which must have been devastating for a man in
> his eighties.
>
> But death came last Saturday.
>
> I'm reminded of the British West Indian popular pianist Winifred Atwell
> who lost all she had, including her memorabilia and her famous "other
> piano" in a bushfire in the hills outside Melbourne, Australia, and who
> is said never to have recovered from the loss.

Here it says she had a bunch of "other" pianos:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/beyond/factsheets/makhist/makhist8_prog8a.shtml

Steve


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