So shocked I fell off my piano

Barbara Cook Someone who was definitely flesh and blood was the great Barbara Cook.   Her creamy effortless lyric soprano led the original casts of many musicals of the 1950s and, when she was no longer […]

Message received: Houston Grand Opera (HGO) is proud to announce the winners for this year’s Concert of Arias, the 37th Annual Eleanor McCollum Competition for Young Singers, held this evening at the Wortham Theater Center […]

We have learned belatedly of the death from Alzheimers complications of the cellist Gayle Mae Smith, a pupil of Casals in Puerto Rico and of Piatigorsky in Los Angeles (pictured). She enjoyed an international solo […]