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Quincy Sore Throat

From: David Greenberger
Series: The Duplex Planet
Length: 02:58

A sore throat named for Quincy, Massachusetts; other ailments and unrelated tangents. Read the full description.

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From: David Greenberger

Default-piece-image-1 A sore throat named for Quincy, Massachusetts; other ailments related to getting older, and unrelated tangents. David Greenberger tells a tale based on a conversation with Arthur Wallace. Part of the Duplex Planet projects, this is a selection from the 2006 CD, 1001 Real Apes, with music by Boston-based ensemble Birdsongs of the Mesozoic. Artist David Greenberger has been collecting the thoughts, memories and stories from elderly Americans for more than a quarter century. Genuine, moving, and often funny, combined with music, the pieces explore issues of aging by revealing real characters that are in decline, but are still very much alive. They reveal the common threads of our humanity.

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Piece Description

A sore throat named for Quincy, Massachusetts; other ailments related to getting older, and unrelated tangents. David Greenberger tells a tale based on a conversation with Arthur Wallace. Part of the Duplex Planet projects, this is a selection from the 2006 CD, 1001 Real Apes, with music by Boston-based ensemble Birdsongs of the Mesozoic. Artist David Greenberger has been collecting the thoughts, memories and stories from elderly Americans for more than a quarter century. Genuine, moving, and often funny, combined with music, the pieces explore issues of aging by revealing real characters that are in decline, but are still very much alive. They reveal the common threads of our humanity.