Word: singer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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DIED. Maria Jeritza, 94, soprano golden girl of opera's golden age; in Orange, N.J. Combining a radiant voice with flamboyant acting, the Austrian-born singer began her ascent to stardom in 1912, when the Emperor Franz Josef invited her to join the Vienna Royal Opera. At the Metropolitan Opera, where she sang from 1921 to 1932, the director reported that the largest ovation he had ever heard followed her "Vissi d'arte, "the great second-act aria in Tosca; she sang it prostrate on the floor. A tempestuous diva onstage and off, Jeritza gathered three husbands, prompted...
FICTION: The Collected Stories, Isaac Bashevis Singer ∙ Family Trade, James Carroll ∙ Forsaking All Others, Jimmy Breslin ∙ The Girl of the Sea of Cortez, Peter Benchley ∙ The South Florida Book of the Dead, Robert Merkin ∙ Worldly Goods, Michael Korda
DIED. Harry Mills, 68, one of the original Mills Brothers, singer of most of the scat parts and baritone solos for the barbershop-swing group, whose mellow and enduringly contemporary sound (Paper Doll, Lazy River, Glow Worm) withstood shifts in musical fashions and gave Mills a singing career that spanned 57 years; of cancer; in Los Angeles...
...mouth goes dry, the palms turn sweaty. The heart races, the knees crumple. The symptoms of stage fright are familiar to anyone who has ever given a speech or been in a school play. Arthur Rubinstein called it "the price I pay for my wonderful life." It prevented Singer Carly Simon from performing for five years, and, without fail, it reduces Actress Maureen Stapleton to pale green mush...
...that the guy in the bleachers could be the guy in the bullpen. "The players are [now] businessmen too--businessmen with a vengeance, it seems--and the space between the fan and the player is the same light years span that divides the television star or the famous nightclub singer from his patronized and wholly anonymous audience...