Word: stade
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Dean Fox has set up a committee to search for a new dean of freshmen to replace F. Skiddy von Stade Jr. '37, who retired from the job last year...
Sing Auld Lang Syne for Skiddy von Stade...
...Jersey who did not attend her first opera until she was 16, could not read music until 20 and probably would never have entered music school if a friend had not dared her. Her pals call her "Flicka," but to the world of music, she is Frederica von Stade of the Metropolitan Opera and a clamoring chorus of other companies in the U.S. and Europe...
Last week, for example, her stage was the San Francisco Opera, where to cheers and sustained applause Von Stade wound up a two-week stand as the young-but-savvy Rosina in Rossini's The Barber of Seville. Then she headed for Italy, where next week she will sing the same role at La Scala. When not in the opera house, she is in the recording studios. Two new albums, French Opera Arias (Columbia) and Frederica von Stade Sings Mozart-Rossini Opera Arias (Philips), display what the fuss is about -a lustrous amber mezzo-soprano voice with an unusually...
...some time. Most recently she was dean of undergraduate affairs, a position she was given last year when her old position, dean of Radcliffe admissions, was wiped out in the merger of the admissions office. Arthurs says she is still too new to the position F. Skiddy von Stade filled for the last 27 years to know exactly what she will do with the job, but she says it is certainly "less mysterious and much more interesting" than her position last year, which was nebulous at best...