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Aug 5, 2022 · Mary Ellin Barrett, Daughter and Defender of Irving Berlin, Dies at 95 - The New York Times. When the great American songwriter’s character came under attack after his death, Ms. Barrett...
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Jul 22, 2022 · Mary Ellin Berlin Barrett died peacefully on July 16, 2022 at the age of 95. A life-long New Yorker, she was the daughter of Ellin and Irving Berlin. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa from...
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Aug 5, 2022 · The Juilliard School community is saddened by the passing of our trustee emerita Mary Ellin Barrett. A person of exceptional intellect and exquisite taste, she possessed a true sense for how...
Jul 2, 2018 · His daughter Mary Ellin Barrett later wrote that Berlin meant every word: “It was the land he loved. It was his home sweet home. He, the immigrant who had made good, was saying thank you.”
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Mary Ellin Barrett (née Berlin; November 25, 1926 – July 16, 2022) was an American critic and memoirist, the eldest of three daughters of Ellin (née Mackay) and composer Irving Berlin. Barrett was born and grew up in New York City , where she attended the Brearley School .
Aug 2, 2022 · Juilliard trustee emerita Mary Ellin Barrett died on July 16, 2022, at 95. She had served on the Juilliard board for 16 years, from 1989 to 2005, when she became trustee emerita. In a tribute for the New York Times, President Emeritus and Chief China Officer Joseph Polisi called Barrett “a person of exceptional intellect and exquisite taste ...
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Barrett died July 16 in Manhattan at 95, her daughter Katherine Swett said. Barrett did not take the position of a biographer, giving a full account of Berlin’s life, or the position of a critic, translating to prose the power of his music and the sources of his creativity.
