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It is May 5th, 2019 and we are in Queens in the Bay Club and it is eleven twenty seven AM. My name is Clare Stokolosa and I will be interviewing Harvey Silverman.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/148248/file/272560#t=2.0,29.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/148248/file/272560/transcript/79483/annotation/2","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Harvey Silverman: Hello, this is Harvey Silverman. I'm going to be 87 if my wife lets me. And a brief history of me, I was born in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, 1932, and I grew up there. We [were] a poor working family. My father was a house painter and when I was nine years old, I took my first saxophone lesson. Fifty cents a lesson. My father said to me, he says, \"You better practice if I'm going to spend 50 cents a lesson on you. You better.\" Anyway, I did, I studied very hard. I went to graduate a public school and I got into the High School of Music and Art, which is a very difficult—","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/148248/file/272560#t=29.0,73.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/148248/file/272560/transcript/79483/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Clare Stokolosa: What public school?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/148248/file/272560#t=73.0,74.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/148248/file/272560/transcript/79483/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Harvey Silverman: I went to P.S. 122 in Williamsburg in Brooklyn. Then I got into Music and Art High School when I was 14. And there I pursued music and I graduated from Music and Art. I went to Juilliard.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/148248/file/272560#t=74.0,92.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/148248/file/272560/transcript/79483/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Clare Stokolosa: Where was Music and Art located at the time?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/148248/file/272560#t=92.0,94.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/148248/file/272560/transcript/79483/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Harvey Silverman: Music and Art was located in West 135th Street in Manhattan. And I was there and then the Korean War broke out. So I figured if I go to college, maybe they wouldn't take me. So I went to college and they said they're taking people who were not married. I was 19 and I said—I was going with this lovely girl—I said, \"Let's get married. I'll get out of the draft.\" Anyway, got married, I was into Juilliard brief period of time, and they drafted me anyway after all that baloney that I went through. Anyway, I took my saxophone with me. I was in Korea for a year. Luckily, the war was just over when I got there so I didn't see combat, but I got into a special service outfit—","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/148248/file/272560#t=94.0,140.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/148248/file/272560/transcript/79483/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Clare Stokolosa: What year was that?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/148248/file/272560#t=140.0,142.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/148248/file/272560/transcript/79483/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Harvey Silverman: That was 1953. And luckily, I got into a special service outfit that—we entertain troops that was shot up, wounded. And I seen a lot of terrible things in hospitals. But we got through that and I got home. I got discharged in 1955 and I came home. My wife surprised me with a brand new saxophone that she bought. And then I wanted—had to do some work. I didn't know what to do. So I wanted to be a musician and my parents said, \"Musicians are no good. They're bums. They're drug addicts. They're gamblers.\" So I said—learn a trade. So my father was a painter. I said—my father let me learn how to paint. So I did painting and I did music also. So I painted during the week and I played music on the weekends.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/148248/file/272560#t=142.0,197.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/148248/file/272560/transcript/79483/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Clare Stokolosa: What type of painting?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/148248/file/272560#t=197.0,198.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/148248/file/272560/transcript/79483/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Harvey Silverman: We did house painting and decorating and so forth. In those days, there were no rollers like there are today. Today is a cinch. But we had to do everything by brush. Very hard, scraping and a lot of very hard work. Anyway, that was it. Then I had my first boy in 1955. Nice boy, Steven. Now he's gonna be 64. God bless him. I had my daughter in 1959, Randi. She was just 60 in February. And thank God I have two wonderful grandchildren. I have a grandson, Zach, who was just 27 in January, and a granddaughter, Brittany, who was 30 this past April. Well, they're doing very well. She just became a P.A. in Arizona. So she's down there working hard. And my grandson is graduating at Baruch College as a business major.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/148248/file/272560#t=198.0,255.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/148248/file/272560/transcript/79483/annotation/11","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Harvey Silverman: And now—and then we moved here to the Bay Club after having a house in Brooklyn for 50 years in Mill Basin. And I heard about the Bay Club through my daughter's mother-in-law. She moved there after her husband passed away. She sold a house in Long Island and moved there. She says, \"Harvey, one day you have to move here. It's fabulous. You got everything. You got entertainment. You got every—it's beautiful.\"  And anyway, well, we sold our house in Brooklyn in nineteen fifty—when was it? Nineteen—forgot already when we sold the house, but it was years ago. We sold in nineteen—in 2007. That's right. I remember now, 2007, we sold it and moved here. We didn't buy. We're just renting here. My daughter lived here. My grandson was born here. And they said, \"Dad, you have to come here.\" So we did.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/148248/file/272560#t=255.0,306.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/148248/file/272560/transcript/79483/annotation/12","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Harvey Silverman: We came here and we love it here. I'm very active. I call bingo for the people. And I also play my instrument for the shows I sit in. And I help out all the time, whatever I can do. And I try my best in music and whatever I can do to entertain the people, keep them happy. And thank God I moved here. It was the best move I ever made. My wife loves it. They got a wonderful restaurant here. They have all kinds of amenities. And I advise anybody who would like to come here and enjoy it and really see how nice it is to live here and be happy. You have everything. You don't have to leave the building. Everything is right here. And I just hope everyone has good luck whoever comes here. And hope you enjoyed my little talk.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/148248/file/272560#t=306.0,350.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/148248/file/272560/transcript/79483/annotation/13","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Clare Stokolosa: Can you talk a little about your experience playing in the Catskills?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/148248/file/272560#t=350.0,355.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/148248/file/272560/transcript/79483/annotation/14","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Harvey Silverman: I played—I had many years that I played in the 1940s in the Catskills when I was a young man. I started—when I played, I was 11 years old the first year I played in the Catskills. I went with guys who were 16, 17 and 18. And I made a big five dollars a week [laughs]. Sometimes if I made an extra three or four dollars would be wonderful. And I had a lot of experience. I played with a lot of famous comedians. Henny Youngman, Red Buttons, Frank Gorshin. And I even played for Dr. Ruth later on in the years. And—Freddie Roman. A lot of famous people. A lot of singers too. Connie Francis and so forth. And I had also, when I was in my dance band in high school, I had the very famous Peter Nero, who was a great piano player. He was in my dance band. He won a Grammy years ago. He wrote a show. And a lot of very famous people. I had Diahann Carroll, the singer, she sang in my band for a while. And it was just a great life I had. That's all I could tell you.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/148248/file/272560#t=355.0,421.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/148248/file/272560/transcript/79483/annotation/15","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Clare Stokolosa: How did you get involved in a band?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/148248/file/272560#t=421.0,424.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/148248/file/272560/transcript/79483/annotation/16","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Harvey Silverman: I got involved with the band—being in music, I met so many people all over. One knows this one. One knows that one. They recommend me here. I even play now. I play with the Queensborough Community College Band. I play flute with them. And I play a summer band with the Rotary Band. We play four concerts in July outdoors on Wednesday. I play sax and flute with them. And it's nice. It's free to everybody. They go outside, bring a chair and it's wonderful. We have a wonderful band there. Very nice people. I advise anyone who would like to come and hear four concerts in July, they're welcome to come. It's free. The name is free. Free. When you hear the word free, everyone comes. And I hope you enjoyed my interview. Stay well, everybody. God bless you all. And God bless the United States of America.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/148248/file/272560#t=424.0,477.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/148248/file/272560/transcript/79483/annotation/17","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Clare Stokolosa: Thank you. Thank you, Harvey.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/148248/file/272560#t=477.0,481.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/148248/file/272560/transcript/79483/annotation/18","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Harvey Silverman: Yeah, it's my pleasure.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/148248/file/272560#t=481.0,480.464"}]}]}]}