Tony Schwartz: Music in the Streets
May 21, 2010, 9:00am
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Tony Schwartz, who passed away in 2008 at the age of 84, is one of the great audio fetishists of the 20th century. While Schwartz's life and career trajectory are fascinating--from his work on LBJ's "Daisy" spot to his three decades on WNYC--they were ably summed up by Doug Schulkind in his moving obit two years ago. There's not much I can add. However, one of the recordings that seems to be missing from Doug's post is Schwartz's Music in the Streets (Folkways, 1957). An all-time favorite, I stumbled across it in the record library of [...]
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