BALLAD OF FRED HERSCH

Directed by Charlotte Lagarde, Carrie Lozano

USA / 2016 / 74 mins / English / New England Premiere

BALLAD OF FRED HERSCH

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Description

The internationally revered jazz pianist and composer Fred Hersch is as much a maverick in life as in music, being the first jazz musician to come out as gay and HIV-positive in the early 1990s.

He miraculously survived a two-month AIDS-related coma in 2008, and turned his tragedy into triumphant art by mounting the ambitious multimedia work, “My Coma Dreams”.

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