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...conclude this year's season, the BankBoston Celebrity Series served up one long dessert of a concert: pianist Richard Goode and soprano Dawn Upshaw performed in a packed Jordan Hall, Each of these superb musicians is so busy in a solo career, it's surprising their yearly tours happen at all--surprising, but oh-so-fortunate. Their teamwork Saturday night produced uncannily, conceptually flawless music and drew a bath of beautiful sound...
Which brings us to the National Football League, the paradigm of labor peace and rationality. The owners have a team salary cap. The players have free agency. "The system has worked well for players," says union executive director Gene Upshaw, who negotiated the deal. "We want the same thing as other entertainers. We want the same thing as Bruce Springsteen, Madonna and Bill Cosby, the right to sell our talent to the highest bidder...
Music: Dawn Upshaw has a gorgeous crossover album...
...Upshaw grew up in a suburb of Chicago. "Mom, who was a schoolteacher, played the piano," she says, "and Dad, who was a minister, played the guitar. I started singing with them and my older sister when I was five -- songs by Peter, Paul and Mary and other folk stuff." Their group was called the Upshaw Family Singers. Her youthful idols were Barbra Streisand, Joni Mitchell and Aretha Franklin, and she dreamed of a career in musical theater. At Illinois Wesleyan University, though, she studied voice with her future father-in-law, David Nott, and he introduced her to classical...
...Upshaw is driven, she doesn't show it. She lives with her husband Michael, a musicologist, and their two children (she gave birth to a boy this summer) in a comfortable house near New York City. Sitting in her living room she might be any suburban woman discussing what it's like to keep everything in balance. "I know I should be giving more thought to shaping my career," she says. "But every morning still feels like a fresh start. My four-year-old daughter Sadie has the same spirit. The first thing she says when she gets...