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Brandon Kazen-Maddox signing “relationship” as part of an A.S.L. interpretation of the song “Midnight Train to Georgia.”Credit.Justin Kaneps for The New York Times
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Making Music Visible: Singing in Sign
A new project is producing sign language covers of 10 seminal musical works recorded by Black female artists.
Brandon Kazen-Maddox signing “relationship” as part of an A.S.L. interpretation of the song “Midnight Train to Georgia.”Credit.Justin Kaneps for The New York Times
April 9, 2021
On a recent afternoon in a brightly lit studio in Brooklyn, Mervin Primeaux-O’Bryant and Brandon Kazen-Maddox were filming a music video. They were recording a cover version of “Midnight Train to Georgia,” but the voices that filled the room were those of Gladys Knight and the Pips, who made the song a hit in the 1970s. And yet the two men in the st
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Little Schubert! He was not quite five feet tall, he was portly, he was plain, and lived only 31 years. The few letters he left behind reveal a gentle, ardent soul, incapable of resentment, and incapable of artifice. He was music’s messenger of infinite beauty and goodwill, producing within 18 years a multitude of symphonies, sonatas, chamber works, and songs in unrivaled abundance. His friends called him “Schwammerl” (“Little Mushroom”) and said that he slept with his glasses on so that he could begin to compose the moment he awoke.
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