The Lady in Number Six: Music Saved My Life is a documentary short about the world’s oldest Holocaust survivor and her passion for music. Malcolm Clarke both directed and narrated this portrait of Alice Herz-Sommer, who at 109 had been playing the piano for more than a century. Every day at 10 a.m. she would…
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Back-Up Singers Face Long Walk to Fame in ’20 Feet from Stardom’
20 Feet from Stardom tells a compelling story while glossing over music industry issues. The story in Morgan Neville’s 2013 documentary is of the back-up singers who sing aural life into songs, such as pioneers Judith Hill, Darlene Love, Merry Clayton, and Lisa Fischer, among others. Consider it this way: Just think of what Lou…