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Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 05:52:01 EDT
From: MatCowa~ol.com
Subject: Adler

<< Adler played by sick
kids bedsides, on top of tanks in the desert in wartime, he played to
gangsters, Kings and Queens, with symphony orchestras, for balletic Dance,
had films written round him, wrote film scores. >>

And, having spent most of his life in exile from the US as a political
dissident, he continued until the end of his days to be an active supporter
of left-wing and labour causes - I mean *physically* active. He himself
believed that his persecution by the secret police in the US began when he
refused to play to racially segregated audiences of troops during WW2. "That
was noted, you can bet," he said. He was braver than most of us. The fact
that he was a notorious egotist is surely part of what goes to make up a
big,
colourful character, a rare giant in his field. It's also important to
remember that Adler considered hismelf to be an *entertainer* above all else
- - so the famous ego was to an extent part of his showbiz persona; his
performances didnt just consist of a virtuoso playing the mouth organ - they
consisted of a larger than life character joking, anecdoting, and dropping
names.
(Incidentally, his is one of the names sometimes suggested as being
the
original of the presumably apocryphal story which goes ... "Adler, you are
the most appalling name-dropper!" "Oh, don't you start - the Queen Mother
was nagging me about that only last week ... "
- - Mat C HREF="http://hometown.aol.co.uk/matcoward/myhomepage/newsletter.html">
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