Ninth child and youngest daughter in a family of thirteen children, my mother grew up steeped in the music of her elder siblings’ era and learned to love, in particular, the Big Bands and the great crooners of the mid-century. What a boon for me, as a child, to grow up in a household filled with that music, in all its fullness and poignancy, sweetness …
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