Hello and welcome to the librarianist in the New York Public Library of the podcast about book culture and what to read next.

My name is Frank.

And my name is Rhonda.

My name is Barbara.

Do you know that record?

Barbara Strife.

Yes, I do.

You know everything.

You're a totally good Barbara Streisand fan.

Are you?

Yes. You know, totally good Barbara Streisand fan. Are you? Yes.

You know, I just came out of nowhere, but I just watched her recent concert on Netflix

because I happened to get a, you know, someone shared a subscription.

I don't know how it works. But I, one late night,

I stumbled upon it and I watched it and I cried and cried. But which concert is this?

It's the magic memories and mayhem or whatever it is. Yeah. It's one of her more recent ones.

And because, like, my mother loved her, and I grew up with her records,

and she's, you know, we went to see Yentel on opening night.

And it was just a memory of childhood in a way of hearing her voice.

And hearing her voice, like, actually, she used to be like indomitable.

And she is indomitable, but like there's slight change in her voice that, you know, doesn't dilute the power, but it's different.

And it shows a little bit of age.

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