In memoriam …

… The Tragedy of Eva Cassidy - by Ted Gioia - The Honest Broker. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

How can you watch this poignant video [of “Over the Rainbow”], and not think of that place beyond the rainbow as the fame she never tasted, the successes she never knew about because they happened too late, or the years and decades robbed from her by illness—and just a month after the Blues Alley gig, doctors told her that the cancer was terminal.