The Concierto de Aranjuez (Adagio) - Larry Adler

A Tribute to Larry Adler (Lawrence Cecil Adler), 1914-2001, the blacklisted American
harmonica player, whose career spanned seven decades, is the subject of this Spadecaller video.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• classical
• Larry
• Adler
• McCarthyism
• Blacklist
• Adagio
• Joaquín
• Rodrigo
• Spadecaller

[jenny6664]

Thank you for this beautiful video of Larry Adler. My mom told me that she saw him in the late 1939s or early 40s performing with a tap dancer, Paul______ (don't remember his last name) Adler was a true genius and did not deserve the treatment he received at the hands of that madman Senator McCarthy.

Would you know if it was his hrmonica doing the background music for "The Rockford Files"?. . . jenny6664

[PayoFyah]

larry adler is magic!!!!!! he's great

[rajeev7898]

I have a good collection of Larry Adler's work, but mostly on audio tapes.I converted all of them to MP3.When I thought of giving titles to the MP3 files, I named them' Larry Adler The God Of Harmonica' 1,2,3 and so on so forth.There was a time when listening to him depressed me.You know why. Because I realized that, not in my life time I will be able to play any thing like him.Now I have been listening to him regularly.God made him for harmonica and he became the God of harmonica. rajeev 7898

[quebienchingasmecae]

almost make me cryy... wonderful

[quebienchingasmecae]

again and again i listen this beautiful melody

[ElizabethGS]

@dixharp speaking of Tommy Morgan and the Rockford Files, he did just about every Movie and TV theme - has a line of credits as long as your arm. He's still performing and doing studio work. The greatest harmonica player whose name you've never heard (because he was always in the studio or playing the harmonica for some star who pretended to onscreen). Look him up - you'll be amazed by just how good the man is.

[dansdotcom]

Who would dislike this Video. Under facist like Joseph McCarthy  like other's who hide under the Religious Right are the real criminals

[sidgurjar]

heartwrenching

[rawmark]

Wow, thank you so much for posting this video. Larry Adler was such an amazing guy and came from the same state as me. I discovered him when I started to learn how to play the harmonica because I wanted to learn chromatic harps. One cannot speak of chromatic harps without mention of Larry Adler. If you want to see one of his works honoured, look up Philip Achille. One of those two vids is of Philip playing Genevieve's Waltz, the song that paid for all of Larry's kids to go to college.

[quebienchingasmecae]

amaziiing, Larry Adleeer is just great, wud be ma wish meet him.

[rurounisld]

whats with the persian wall decorations ? :D

[vk92007]

@adiman83 You'ren funny!