if i'd not happened upon the 2017 biopic, 'django', i'd never have heard this reconstruction of his almost lost 'requiem for gypsy brothers' that he wrote to commemorate the 250,000-500,000 romani gypsies who were exterminated by the nazis.
#djangoReinhardt #holocaust #romaniGypsies #nazis #music #history #film #cinema
side note: the film (& this song) made me painfully & acutely aware (yet, again) how we're letting this happen once more - only it's even worse this time because we see the extent of it every damned day.
@kathimmel thank you! That was NOT AT ALL what I expected.
@simon_brooke my ears were deceived & strangely delighted, as well, in spite of the harrowing subject matter.