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NY Times, Sept. 14, 2008
Small article that ran in the Times 9/14/08. In case it's not legible, text reads:
No Jimmy Buffett, Just Warren and Son
When the composer and philanthropist Peter Buffett holds a "concert and conversation" next month in Los Angeles, a special guest will appear: his father, Warren.
Although Warren E. Buffett is mainly known for his investing skills, "I am going to call him up to show that he can play a pretty mean ukulele," the son said. "I look forward to sharing the stage with him."
Both Warren and Peter plan to sing; Peter will play piano. (The cellist Michael Kott will also perform.)
Peter Buffett said he had inherited his musical ability both from his father and his mother, Susan, who, he said, "played the piano around the house and sang semi-professionally, jazz standards." Mrs. Buffet died in 2004.
He added that his father had courted his mother with music.
"My mother was not nearly as interested in him as he was in her," Peter said. "He would go to her home and play ukulele with her father, who played the mandolin. My grandfather fell in love with my father; he thought he was great, and then my mother did."
The Emmy Award-winning Mr. Buffett is a composer of both instrumental and vocal music. His new vocal album, "Imaginary Kingdom," will be released next week.
During his Los Angeles concert, at the Paley Center for Media, he said he would discuss "the trajectory of growing up in Omaha" and "finding that music is in my heart and making a career of it."
-Jane L. Levere
NY Times, Sept. 14, 2008
Small article that ran in the Times 9/14/08. In case it's not legible, text reads:
No Jimmy Buffett, Just Warren and Son
When the composer and philanthropist Peter Buffett holds a "concert and conversation" next month in Los Angeles, a special guest will appear: his father, Warren.
Although Warren E. Buffett is mainly known for his investing skills, "I am going to call him up to show that he can play a pretty mean ukulele," the son said. "I look forward to sharing the stage with him."
Both Warren and Peter plan to sing; Peter will play piano. (The cellist Michael Kott will also perform.)
Peter Buffett said he had inherited his musical ability both from his father and his mother, Susan, who, he said, "played the piano around the house and sang semi-professionally, jazz standards." Mrs. Buffet died in 2004.
He added that his father had courted his mother with music.
"My mother was not nearly as interested in him as he was in her," Peter said. "He would go to her home and play ukulele with her father, who played the mandolin. My grandfather fell in love with my father; he thought he was great, and then my mother did."
The Emmy Award-winning Mr. Buffett is a composer of both instrumental and vocal music. His new vocal album, "Imaginary Kingdom," will be released next week.
During his Los Angeles concert, at the Paley Center for Media, he said he would discuss "the trajectory of growing up in Omaha" and "finding that music is in my heart and making a career of it."
-Jane L. Levere