Category: music
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Black Voices Matter, Pt. 2 1/2: More Mezzos
Hilda Harris, a lyric mezzo from Warrenton, North Carolina, began her career as a recording-studio backup singer for the likes of Dionne Warwick, Aretha Franklin and Roberta Flack and juggled classical voice lessons with appearances on Broadway, including 110 in the Shade and Golden Boy. Her opera debut as Cherubino…
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Black Voices Matter: Part 2
Marian Anderson was an American icon, awarded the American Medal of Freedom by Lyndon Johnson and the National Medal of Arts by Ronald Reagan. She will be forever known for her role in the nation’s racial history. But even without that, her voice would be immortal.
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The Greatest Tenor of All Time
Happy birthday to Plácido Domingo, the man whose clarion voice and no-holds-barred performance style jump-started my lifelong opera obsession. Quantitatively, Domingo is almost certainly the greatest tenor of all time. He launched his operatic career in 1959 at the age of eighteen, with an audition for the National Opera of…
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Sounds of the Season, Pt. II
What an awesome thing it was to imagine oneself one of the shepherds who heard that first Nowell, and to hear and smell some of the critters Jesus would have heard and smelled when he was lying in the manger.
Louise T. Guinther 