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...there in my civvies, staring at all those black and red costumes, I kept wondering if everything was hanging right," said Beverly Sills, confessing to stage fright. On an unfamiliar stage last week, the Brooklyn-born soprano became an honorary doctor of music in Harvard Yard, along with Mstislav Rostropovich, the Russian cellist. "It was much more nerve-racking than any performance," said Beverly. "Maybe I should have sung instead." Doctor Beverly joshed Husband and Harvard Alumnus Peter Greenough saying, "I'm a Harvard man just like the other Greenoughs." Then she referred to her son Bucky...
...there is a fairy tale to keep every frustrated diva or divo going strong, that, more or less, is it. Last week the dream came true for Brooklyn-born Soprano Klara Barlow, 45. In a dozen years of big parts with minor companies and substitute assignments in major houses, Klara never stopped believing. Now she was on the great stage of the Met, making rapturous musical love to handsome Jess Thomas, the reliable Wagnerian tenor. When at last she died by Thomas' side at the end of the Liebestod, the crowd went wild...
Died. Constance Talmadge, 73, Brooklyn-born comedienne of the silent film era best known for her roles in Polly of the Follies and Her Sister from Paris; after a long illness; in Los Angeles...
...showing for the festival's young, unknown co-producers, Shelly Finkel, 29, and Jim Koplik, 23. The Brooklyn-born Finkel started kicking around the music business a decade ago, when he was a night student in marketing at New York University; he spent several years managing small rock groups. In 1970 one of his groups appeared in a concert at Ohio State University promoted by Koplik, then an undergraduate majoring in sociology. The pair hit it off, and after Koplik graduated they teamed up to promote concerts in Hartford and New Haven, Conn. Watkins Glen was their first...
Died. Jimmy Lytell, 67, Brooklyn-born bandleader who played jazz clarinet professionally by age 14, formed his own Dixieland jazz band during the 1920s and performed as many as 17 radio shows a week during the 1940s; in Kings Point...