Word: chookasian
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Dates: during 1961-1961
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Tynes's fine performance got strong backing from other American singers, particularly Mezzo-Soprano Lili Chookasian, 35, a voice teacher from Northwestern University, and Negro Tenor George Shirley, 27. Conductor Thomas Schippers handled Strauss's surging score with such brilliant control that he might even have satisfied the composer's father, who muttered when he heard Salome: "0 God, what nervous music! It is exactly as if one had one's trousers full of May bugs...