Lena Horne

[Guest alanm]

Few people excelled in every aspect of show business as a performer like Lena Horne. Movies, records/CDs, nightclubs, Broadway, concerts, Lena could do it all- and usually better than everyone else. I only saw her in person twice, in "A Lady and Her Music" on Broadway" and at her 80th birthday celebration at Lincoln Center (where many of the nation's greatest singers came to sing and pay tribute).

 

That New York Lincoln Center gala may have been Lena's last public appearance, and I guess she is somewhat forgotten now. Too bad, because she was a great talent. I doubt that anyone who ever saw Lena Horne in person would not put her with the greatest entertainers of the 20th century.

[NYTomcat]

Here Here, and also an elegant and outspoken voice for civil right. A woman the world will miss.

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[edjames]

A classy, talented, beautiful lady...

 

So sad that Lena Horne passed away. I, too, had the privelege of seeing her in her one woman show on Broadway. The night we went the stage lighting above her head broke and a quick thinking first row audience member reacted quickly and got her to move to the edge of the stage, possibly saving her life! When she turned around, the lighting fixture was hanging about four feet from the stage. She surely would have been hit on the head had she not moved out of the way. The show was cancelled that evening and Lena came out and gave a lovely apology to the audience and a gracious thank you to the man that saved her. We went back at a later date and the show went off without any problems and I enjoyed every moment of it! I also saw her in an earlier Broadway date with Tony Bennett in 1981. She was class all the way!

 

ED