But Carlebach also continues to see his father as a multifaceted human being, if he has any flaws. “We are bigger than our biggest mistakes and less than our greatest accomplishments,” he said. “I tried to keep the portions of his inheritance. And the rest, I had to forgive him and love him and let him die.
Carlebach’s musical career was shot in the arm after its slowdown, which included cancellations from others who linked him strongly to his father. During the coronavirus pandemic, Carlebach said he gave more than 90 virtual performances and sang the music of his father at the request of listeners.
“People listen to my father’s music,” he says. “They cry, they cry. They’re in conflict, some of them.
Some of them say, “How can we reconcile? Help us reconcile this music. “That’s what they sing, God forbid, you know: someone called, their elderly relative was dying of the virus and they couldn’t go. They called nurses, and they sing my father’s music. This is what they sing at this terrible dreadful moment, they sing. And that’s his peace. It’s communication, it’s the bridge. “
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