The basic obituary passes along the bones, and little more: so-and-so was born here, died there, is survived by X, Y, and Z. In the hands of a master it's a short-story form. But sometimes less is more. This appeared in today's paper, an obit for harmonica player Jerry Adler:
But who labored in the shadow of his more famous harmonica-playing older brother. If Hollywood still made old-style musicals, this would have been a natural. Brother Larry was a classical harmonica player; Jerry was the guy with the pop career. His brother got his start performing Beethoven's Minuet in G in a 1927 talent show; Jerry played the same piece five years later in the same contents, and won it as well.
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If the description for the video below is correct, they shared the stage once, and that was to play "Rhapsody in Blue." On the harmonicas. And here it is:
