Word: leona
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Price is especially proud of the part she has played in opening the world's stages to younger black singers like Sopranos Leona Mitchell and Kathleen Battle. "I am here, and you will know that I am the best and will hear me," says Price, summarizing her philosophy. "The color of my skin or the kink of my hair or the spread of my mouth has nothing to do with what you are listening to." She took particular satisfaction from singing with Bass Simon Estes in her farewell Aida: "It makes me feel just wonderful to have this black...
...Leona Davidson, at the Cambridge Savings Bank, 1375 Mass. Ave., told police that a man in his thirties walked into the bank at about 3:15 p.m. Tuesday and handed her a note that read, "I have a gun, give...
...effective. Sometimes they are not up to major-house standards, as with Tenor Philip Creech, whom Levine has pushed beyond the limit of his modest gifts. But his commitment to certain singers has paid off in the development of several young Americans who are potential stars, among them Sopranos Leona Mitchell and Kathleen Battle. And his tireless work with the Met orchestra has greatly raised the level of its playing: short of the Vienna State Opera orchestra's class, but at least on a par with the excellent Royal Opera House orchestra in London...
...town 65 miles northwest that of Oklahoma City whose residents are usually more intent on dealing in wheat, poultry and oil than nurturing opera singers. Her father, a Pentecostal minister, played a number of instruments by ear, and her mother, a nurse, was also a pianist. Leona inherited their musical gifts, singing in the church choir and dabbling with the violin. As a senior in high school, she once learned an aria from Aida by rote, since she could not read music. To please a teacher, she auditioned for the music department at Oklahoma City University; to her astonishment...
...Merola victory in 1971 gave Mitchell a niche in the San Francisco Opera's summer apprentice program and, more important, a place in the heart of the company's then general director, Kurt Herbert Adler. Two years later, Leona sang her first Micaela in Bizet's Carmen at the San Francisco Spring Opera Theater. In 1974 she also won a $10,000 Opera America grant, and used it to move to Los Angeles to begin studies with Voice Teacher Ernest St. John Metz, still her coach and mentor...