R.I.P to the Father of American Music Stephen Foster. Exactly 151 years ago today, in 1864, he died at age 37 with 38 cents in his pocket and a penciled scrap of paper that read, dear friends and gentle hearts. His brother Henry described the accident in the New York theater-district hotel that led to his death: confined to bed for days by a persistent fever, Stephen tried to call a chambermaid, but collapsed, falling against the washbasin next to his bed and shattering it, which gouged his head. It took three hours to get him to the hospital, and in that era before transfusions and antibiotics, he succumbed after three days. This video clip comes from the film, Harmony Lane filmed in 1935 that details the life of the famed composer. For further reading, I highly recommend this website - pitt.edu/~amerimus/index.htm
Posted on: Tue, 13 Jan 2015 20:31:50 +0000
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