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Lady E had two children. Her youngest boy Pierre suffered mental damage when he was just eighteen; her oldest died in a freak incident while he was on Army maneuvers. But rather than succumbing to grief Lady E rose above it and began singing the blues and jazz. Years after her son Bubbie died, he returned to her in someone else's flesh.
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Lady E had two children. Her youngest boy Pierre suffered mental damage when he was just eighteen; her oldest died in a freak incident while he was on Army maneuvers. But rather than succumbing to grief Lady E rose above it and began singing the blues and jazz. Years after her son Bubbie died, he returned to her in someone else's flesh.
Transcript
Lady E: Two Times A Child, Part 2
INTRO
1:30
Welcome to a Grain Of Sand
I think the poet William Blake got it right. You can see the entire universe in a grain of
sand. All you need to do is look close enough.
You can also hear the music of the spheres in words and sounds. In the ordinary, the
common place. The things we say, and how we say them.
The big truths of life are interwoven with our stories, the tales we tell on ourselves. One
image, one incident, a single memory, a byte of sound, leads to another and another until
you’ve got enough grains of sand to build an entire planet. Enough words to construct a
life. Or at least a generous slice of it.
I’m Charles McGuigan for WRIR and I’ll be your host for the next half hour.
Sit back and relax. Somebody’s about to say something. Just listen.
NARRATIVE 1
1:25
We’r...
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Timing and Cues
Full piece runs 00:28:05; without into and outro piece runs 00:25:11
Eliza Summers
Posted on March 12, 2009 at 12:36 AM | Permalink
stunning
This is a beautiful, heartbreaking piece - there are so many truths in Lady E's story - despair, grief, fate, and ultimately hope and even the redemptive power of music. And what voices!