A Waltz for Georgette and a tale of the Elephant Boy, 1937

Fri, 13 Aug 2021 03:11:09 +0000

In 2011, I posted a note about Mena Silas, the now-forgotten Baghdadi Jewish composer who wrote Taj Mahal, the foxtrot after which my book is named. A month later, a woman named Patricia Kaden who lives in Cremona, Italy, was sorting through the papers of her mother, Georgia, and came upon a small note indicating that Mena Silas had written a tune for her titled Waltz for Georgette. Patricia did an internet search for Silas and found me.