day lady

"In 'The Day Lady Died, the precise and banal details of his train schedule and the presents he is bringing set the stage for the memory of Billie Holiday, a memory that seems to exist out of time. It is Holiday who breaks through the hustle and bustle of his life and has captured through her art--her voice--something nearly eternal. Although she has 'stopped breathing' in reality, in his memory of her it is the audience who is dead and she is the one most alive." -- David Bergman