A Memory of My Momma and Music April 3, 2013 During my youth, my momma and I enjoyed music from her extensive record (meaning 78 rpm and LP [33 1/3 €] ) records. Some genres that she introduced to me were Ragtime, Blues and Big Band Era. However, she also had an album of Tchaikovsky’s “Nutcracker Suite.” I see myself now in the living room of our upstairs apartment on West 10th Street. As I view this scene, the 7 year old girl takes the 33 1/3 € disc out of the yellow-covered album and places it on the record player gently, she lays the needle gingerly on the outer edge of the record. Now she is raising her arms to wave them to the rhythm of the songs, imagining herself the conductor of the Boston Pops Orchestra. (This orchestra is a guess so many decades later.) She plays some of the songs so many times that the ridges wear away. Her mother never says...
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