Lucia Micarelli.
By Paul Goldfinger, Editor @Blogfinger
In the HBO series Tremé, one of the main characters is a young woman named Annie Talarico who plays the violin, and when we meet her, she is playing on the streets of New Orlean’s French Quarter with her boyfriend on keyboards. People are dropping dollar bills into a hat which lies on the ground. As we get to know her better, we find out that she is a remarkable and versatile musician, and we get to follow her career over time. We begin to appreciate her musical and artistic challenges, her relationships, and her focused principles. We keep tabs on her story line during 4 seasons over 3 years.
The interesting back story is that she is actually Lucia Micarelli, a concert violinist and an actress in real life. She is from New York City, of Italian and Korean heritage, and has attended Juilliard and the Manhattan School of Music. She has performed with Jethro Tull and Josh Groban.
Her 2004 album “Music From a Farther Room” is very eclectic with selections from classic original pieces and even a jazz standard “My Funny Valentine” by Rodgers and Hart from the 1937 musical Babes in Arms. The song has been featured on over 1,300 albums by 600 artists.
Here is Lucia Micarelli with “My Funny Valentine.” (NOTE. The man who wrote the lyrics to this song in 1943, Lorenz Hart, is featured in a marvelous movie on Netflix called Blue Moon.:). Here is a link–
“My Funny Valentine”