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- My First Funeral
- From
- David Greenberger
Greenberger's monologue introduces his work with the Duplex Planet, interviews with the elderly that began at a Boston nursing home. Here Greenberger tells of taking nursing home resident Arthur Wallace to a funeral, where Wallace offers up his own bit of a eulogy. This piece has no music. Part of the Duplex Planet projects, this is a selection from the 1998 CD, The Duplex Planet Hour, with music by pianist Terry Adams.
Artist David Greenberger has been collecting 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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Greenberger's monologue introduces his work with the Duplex Planet, interviews with the elderly that began at a Boston nursing home. Here Greenberger tells of taking nursing home resident Arthur Wallace to a funeral, where Wallace offers up his own bit of a eulogy. This piece has no music. Part of the Duplex Planet projects, this is a selection from the 1998 CD, The Duplex Planet Hour, with music by pianist Terry Adams. Artist David Greenberger has been collecting 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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