Maria Tănase was a singer. Folk songs and the funeral in Bucharest are the voice a Romanian family would put on a first sample page. She sang as if the song were a person she had known. She died in 1963.
Fotografie
Willy Pragher · CC BY 4.0
Gând
A sample thought. Someone who was taught, or helped, would leave a few lines here.
Nora
Gând
A sample thought. A colleague would remember the work, and the way it was done.
Paul
Poveste
The walk home
This is a sample story, so the page can show a longer memory. A daughter would write the walk home, the song in the kitchen, and the sentence that is still repeated.
Anna
Fotografie
Willy Pragher · CC BY 4.0
Fotografie
Willy Pragher · CC BY 4.0
Lumânare
A lasting sample light, so the page is not dark.
Paul
Lumânare
A sample candle left beside the story.
Daniel
Videoclipuri
A piece played at home
A sample film for Maria Tănase. The family would put here a song or a piece of footage they still play.
Muzică
A song they loved
The family
Dar
Lumânare
A sample gift of light.
Helen
Dar
Carte
A sample card for Maria Tănase.
Mark
Dar
Floare
A sample flower, left on the page.
Iris
Cronologie
Born
Maria Tănase was born in 1913.
Cronologie
A national voice
By the late 1930s her recordings and radio work had made the voice a public one.
Cronologie
Died in Bucharest
She died in Bucharest.
Întâlnire
An evening of remembrance
A sample gathering for Maria Tănase. The family would write the time, the place, and who is welcome.
The family
1913
1938
1963