Live your life to the fullest.
Dance as if no one were watching,
Sing as if no one were listening,
And live every day as if it were your last.

Wednesday, July 7, 2010

Beverly Sills (1929-2007)




I can think of no other person who is more responsible for my love of vocal music than Beverly Sills.  I first became aware of her when she was the co-host on the Mike Douglas Show in the late 1960s.  One day she sang "All the Things You Are"  by Jerome Kern and  I fell in love with her immediately.  A few days later I bought my first opera recording ("Bellini and Donizetti Heroines") at Cutler's in New Haven, CT.  I didn't understand a word she was singing but oh that voice . . .  how was it humanly possible to sing like that?

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