{"id":24639,"date":"2022-05-12T12:04:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-12T17:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=24639"},"modified":"2022-05-12T12:04:00","modified_gmt":"2022-05-12T17:04:00","slug":"obit-watch-may-12-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=24639","title":{"rendered":"Obit watch: May 12, 2022."},"content":{"rendered":"

Gloria Parker has passed away at 100<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Ms. Parker played glasses.<\/p>\n

At a young age, Gloria began studying violin (she said she played a child-sized instrument at the Brooklyn Academy of Music when she was 4 or 5). At 8, she began learning to play the glasses from her grandfather, who had brought the skill (and eight fragile Bohemian crystal glasses) from his native Czechoslovakia.<\/a>
\n\u201cWhen I was still a little girl,\u201d Miss Parker told United Press International in 1984, \u201cI had a musical vaudeville act playing both the glasses and marimba.\u201d<\/a>
\nShe mastered how to conjure music from 28 glasses, each filled with water or white wine to produce particular sounds.<\/a>
\n\u201cOne drop either way makes a difference,\u201d she told The Daily News in 2012. \u201cHeight, circumference \u2014 it all makes a difference soundwise.\u201d<\/a>
\nShe would rub her fingers over the rims of the glasses to produce a musical range of two octaves as she played pop, classical, jazz and calypso songs.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

…<\/p>\n

A multi-instrumentalist, she also played the marimba, vibraphone, violin, maracas and tabor, a type of drum.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

She was also in “Broadway Danny Rose” as one of Rose’s clients.<\/p>\n

NYT<\/strong> obit for Bob Lanier<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Richard Wagner<\/a>. He was one of the old CBS news guys who covered Vietnam and a lot of other stories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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