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Alfred Adler - a fascinating early psychologist and humanist.
Larry Adler is famous for travelling to Australia in his old age and being universally loved and feted by the mainstream media. The CD of a concert in Sydney is charming. The music is enhanced by Adler's timeless sense of stage, performance mastery and strong humour. Cairns Library has a copy of the CD for loan.
Beyond s Vegas - Australia? God's waiting room for the career that's so far over the hill? Las Vegas looks like battle of the bands for the up and coming?
Larry Adler doesn't treat Australia with disdain. Working At 80 years of age Finding an Earn in Arts Branford Marsalis
WIKIPEDIA- "Adler taught himself harmonica (which he preferred to call a mouth-organ)[1] and began playing professionally at the age of 14. In 1927, his rendition of a Beethoven minuet won him an award, and a year later, he ran away from home to New York."
Adler got his first theatre work, orchestra leader Paul Ash, who placed Adler in a vaudeville act as "a ragged urchin, playing for pennies". From there, he was hired by Florenz Ziegfeld and then by Lew Leslie (again as an urchin).
CLIP FROM 1980s... talks about Gershwin and the sound of the human voice.
Adler finally broke the typecasting and appeared in a dinner jacket in the 1934 Paramount film Many Happy Returns, and was hired by British theatrical producer C. B. Cochran to perform in a London revue. Adler found stardom in the United Kingdom and the British Empire; where, it has been written, harmonica sales increased twenty-fold and 300,000 people joined fan clubs Grandson Peter Adler in Ireland |
