Pete Seeger is Gone, but His Circles of Song Ring On.
'Pete Seeger spent his life surrounded by circles of song with varying dimensions.
He often created them himself, putting a hand to his ear as a signal that he expected any audience encircling a stage to drown him out.
Beacon, N.Y., his longtime home town, is like the center of a swirling circular galaxy of music these days, most of it written and sung with a better world in mind and most of it inspired in some way by his example.
I was humbled to be among those who were able to pay Pete a visit over the last several days at New York-Presbyterian Hospital as his heart and body failed at age 94. (He died peacefully last night around 9:30 p.m., family members told me; His wife Toshi died last July.) . . .
Click here for Jon Pareles’s fine obituary in The Times.' http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/29/arts/music/pete-seeger-songwriter-and-champion-of-folk-music-dies-at-94.html?hp
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As is said in Swahili: "Guka 'mzimba, sala 'nhliziyo" (Body grows old, heart remains behind)
Fair Winds and Godspeed, Pete Seeger
