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libertangoWe were watching They All Laughed the other night. Which feautures Audrey Hepburn. And it reminded me, as I told ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
akirlu, of a story I'd heard about Dave Brubeck's song, "Audrey".
So I went searching for a more definitive source today, and I think I've found it -- an interview with Brubeck himself, dated 6 May 1999, with Terry Gross of NPR's Fresh Air. Here it is:
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GROSS: This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross.
Back with composer and pianist Dave Brubeck. Columbia Records recently reissued several CDs in celebration of his 50th anniversary as a recording artist. Let's hear a track from one of the reissued CDs. From the CD Brubeck Time, this is "Audrey." Composed by Brubeck and alto saxophonist Paul Desmond.
(BEGIN AUDIO CLIP -- JAZZ PIANIST DAVE BRUBECK PERFORMING "AUDREY")
GROSS: The recording we just heard was released 45 years ago, which was the same year that you were on the cover of Time magazine. What was the impact of this recording, Brubeck Time, on your career?
BRUBECK: Well, it's a wonderful time in my life because we had been struggling for years to get to be more known. And as you mentioned, the cover of Time magazine was really something that helped us a lot.
But when you mentioned "Audrey," it was Audrey Hepburn that we had in mind. And we never realized that she ever had heard this tune. There was no communication like that. And because she was so important at the United Nations for the work she did with children, when they did a memorial service for her there her husband asked that they play what you just played. And they said that she usually played it every night or put it on her headphones as she walked through her garden in Switzerland. So it was wonderful to hear that. I wish Paul Desmond had been around to know that she listened to it and liked it.
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I just find that charming and wistful, all around.
akirlu, of a story I'd heard about Dave Brubeck's song, "Audrey".So I went searching for a more definitive source today, and I think I've found it -- an interview with Brubeck himself, dated 6 May 1999, with Terry Gross of NPR's Fresh Air. Here it is:
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GROSS: This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross.
Back with composer and pianist Dave Brubeck. Columbia Records recently reissued several CDs in celebration of his 50th anniversary as a recording artist. Let's hear a track from one of the reissued CDs. From the CD Brubeck Time, this is "Audrey." Composed by Brubeck and alto saxophonist Paul Desmond.
(BEGIN AUDIO CLIP -- JAZZ PIANIST DAVE BRUBECK PERFORMING "AUDREY")
GROSS: The recording we just heard was released 45 years ago, which was the same year that you were on the cover of Time magazine. What was the impact of this recording, Brubeck Time, on your career?
BRUBECK: Well, it's a wonderful time in my life because we had been struggling for years to get to be more known. And as you mentioned, the cover of Time magazine was really something that helped us a lot.
But when you mentioned "Audrey," it was Audrey Hepburn that we had in mind. And we never realized that she ever had heard this tune. There was no communication like that. And because she was so important at the United Nations for the work she did with children, when they did a memorial service for her there her husband asked that they play what you just played. And they said that she usually played it every night or put it on her headphones as she walked through her garden in Switzerland. So it was wonderful to hear that. I wish Paul Desmond had been around to know that she listened to it and liked it.
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I just find that charming and wistful, all around.
