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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