I wrote this song for the 99th Memorial of the Triangle Fire.
Originally I sang it to the tune of Leadbelly's
"Where Did You Sleep Last Night"
Then as I sang it, it found its own blues rhythm.
Girls, Girls, Where Did You Work Last Night?
Girls! Girls! Teenage immigrants,
Tell me, where did you work last night?
Somebody tell me. C’mon Rose, Sarah, Daisy.
Washington and Greene, in the factory,
where the door kept locked, by greed.
O Girls! Girls! Teenage immigrants,
tell me where did you go in the fire?
Tessie, Caterina, Antonietta, somebody tell me.
I jumped to the street where my bones and concrete meet,
the sewer, my blood runs through.
Girls O Girls! Teenage immigrants,
tell me of your New York dreams.
Rosaria, Celia, Annie, somebody tell me.
Well I ran from poverty, persecution, misery.
We were starving, needed a buck,
I got on the boat to try my luck.
Made it 'cross the sea to the wave of Liberty.
Worked the Triangle Factory, in the New York Garment Industry,
Where amber waves of flame caught me.
So I dove for the sky, broken window, promises
Spring air. I prayed, New York City, catch me!
We were body makers,
sleeve makers, sleeve setters,
collar makers, cuff setters,
yoke setters,
buttonhole makers,
tuckers, closers, hemmers, joiners,
finishers, pressers,
button sewers, lace runners,
embroidery trimmers, thread trimmers, sample makers.
Makers. Joiners. Finishers.
Makers. Joiners. Finishers.
O Girls! Girls! Teenage immigrants,
Tell me, how burning hot is greed?
C’mon tell me, Sadie, Lina, Josie, Margaret.
Well, our breath caught the fire, hair and lace, the flames, and cinders
became our names.
San Valentino special.
Annie tells how to cook a heart. Based on extensive research and oral histories with the best butchers in town.
Replete with sage advice
Extinct New York voices. Annie Lanzillotto recorded the voices of blue corner mailboxes in New York City, before they were all sealed shut.
Annie Lanzillotto tells about meeting Storme De Lavarie, Stonewall icon.
“Your One Gay Life” by Annie Rachele Lanzillotto
“Hey baby, stay a while.” This was the kindest thing anybody ever said to me. And the most life-affirming. Stonewall Veteran Stormé De Larvarie patrolled the streets and bars of New York helping generations of us on our way. She was a true superhero of the streets. Stormé did the work we each need to do, one by one by one by being present and paying attention...
"Slow Loud Clear" by Annie Lanzillotto
You will never hear the word "America" the same way again.
This episode is dedicated to:
Sr. M. Raymond Aloysia (Caroline Paluzzi)
of the Sisters of St. Francis, Hastings-on-Hudson, She was born on December 10, 1916, and died on January 12, 2000. Her mother was Erminia Zaletti Paluzzi. Her father was Rocco Paluzzi. She had a brother Henry. She entered the convent on January 5, 1936 and professed her final vows on July 14, 1941. She held various positions in teaching. She has been at St. Eugene School and parish in Yonkers for over 35 years. She is buried at St. Peter's Catholic Cemetery, Poughkeepsie.
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special thanks to JoAnn Fusco Burrows
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"Slow Loud Clear"
written by Annie Rachele Lanzillotto © 2012
audio performance by Annie Rachele Lanzillotto © 2020
o"My Throwing Arm : This Useless Expertise"
by Annie Lanzillotto
A struggle in pink, the constant bouncing pulse, a Bronx girl and her Spaldeen.
When the chips are down, what good is being able to aim a ball at an X on the wall?
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"My Throwing Arm: This Useless Expertise"
text: Annie Rachele Lanzillotto © 1993
audio performance: Annie Rachele Lanzillotto © 2021
Annie first performed an iteration of this story in 1993 as a one woman show at "Under One Roof Theatre "Women 9-90 Festival" and Manhattan Class Company's "Performance Marathon," directed by Victoria MacElwayne, with live sound action by Eliza Ladd.
Living alone, immunocompromised and sheltering-in-place during COVID-19, how do you prepare at night?
Annie's yellow post-it note flies around the house. A yellow post-it note butterfly. It reads: PREPARE TO BE FOUND.
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"Prepare to Be Found"
text: Annie Rachele Lanzillotto © 2021
audio performance: Annie Rachele Lanzillotto © 2021
*Annie first performed this story in the series "Tell Me a Story Annie" on 1/24/21, produced by City Lore. Thanks to Steve Zeitlin, Molly Garfinkel, Eva Pedraglieri, Salley May.
How to walk in Napoli and Roma on San Pietrini stones...
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"Footfall"
text: Annie Rachele Lanzillotto © 2021
audio performance: Annie Rachele Lanzillotto © 2021
One of the most profound days of my life was up a mountain in Sicilia. Eternal thanks to Stefania Taviano for taking me around her homeland, and to her ancestral land, of olive trees growing on steep slopes.
"Nerina” written by Annie Lanzillotto, was awarded an Allen Ginsberg Poetry Award Honorable Mention sponsored by the Poetry Center at Passaic County Community College. Published in Paterson Literary Review #49, Editor Maria Mazziotti Gillan, Paterson, New Jersey, 2021.
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"Nerina"
text: Annie Rachele Lanzillotto © 2020
audio performance: Annie Rachele Lanzillotto © 2021
Tony Chiappelloni was the last of the ..... "The Mayor of Prospect Park" earning that moniker with his scores of good deeds for everyone in his path. He schools Annie on everything from sexuality to the gnostic gospels with lessons from the streets of Ancient Rome.
Annie first published this story in the Paterson Literary Review, 2014.
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"The Mayor of Prospect Park"
text: Annie Rachele Lanzillotto © 2014
audio performance: Annie Rachele Lanzillotto © 2021
...this is the parmigiano snowglobe we all live inside...
in this episode you learn about "Cucinamania" and "Le Vecchiette Dentro" two syndromes....
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"Parmigiano Snowglobe"
text: Annie Rachele Lanzillotto © 2014
audio performance: Annie Rachele Lanzillotto © 2021
Annie first told a rendition of this story in 2014 as "Spaghetti and Meatballs" on WFUV radio, "CItyScape" hosted by George Bodarky.
What happens when the spirits push you around?
When you think you're doing one thing when you're doing another
Annie thinks she's doing an art project, when the ancestors shake her to her bones.
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"Zerega Bllues"
text: Annie Rachele Lanzillotto © 2016
audio performance: Annie Rachele Lanzillotto © 2021
Annie first performed this story April 15, 2016 at The Bronx Museum of the Arts for the "Bronx Women, Bronx Stories" series, curated by Lauren Click. The evening was hosted by Maria Aponte, and featured performances by Nene Ali, Michele Carlo, Annie Lanzillotto, and Julissa Rodriguez.
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*This podcast episode was recorded in November 2019 at The Loft Recording Studios, Bronxville, New York, by Aleah Hyer.
This is the story of Annie's Mom Rachele and how she always carried a frittata in her pockabook, and fed everyone.
Dedicated to Rachele Clare Petruzzelli Lanzillotto, 1926 - 2016, may her sparkle live on forever.
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Annie first performed "Frittatagoraphobia" August 2001, as a cooking show at The Smithsonian Folk Life Festival in the "Food Tent"-- in a session curated by Annie Hauck-Lawson.
On December 8th, 2008, Annie performed a rendition of this story with percussionist John Gennari at The Astor Center, in Manhattan, in their "Kitchen Jazz Lazzi" duet, for the promotion of the book, "Gastropolis: Food and New York City", edited by Annie Hauck-Lawson and Jonathan Deutsch (Columbia U Press) in which Lanzillotto wrote Chapter 13: COSA MANGIA OGGI, on her Bronx Italian youth through food.
Annie Lanzillotto recounts meeting Rabbi Simkha Weintraub at an epic party in Brooklyn, January 2020, the January before the plague. Rabbi Simkha counsels Annie using lessons from the destruction and rebuilding of The Temple. A parable in its tone.
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