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Sopranos in the Sky

The greatest of all modern operatic sopranos, by general consensus, is Maria Callas, born in New York City in 1923 of Greek ancestry. After moving to Athens during her teens and taking voice lessons, she returned to the U.S. and became a huge star in the 1950s, making her first of many appearances at the Metropolitan Opera in 1956 in the 18th-century Italian opera Norma, leading to high-profile fame over the next 15 years; curiously, she was nominated for six Grammy... MORE ››

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♦ Our Winter Love ♦
by Bill Pursell

By the time Oakland, California-born Bill Pursell arrived in Nashville, Tennessee in the early 1960s, he had studied classical music at Rochester, New York's Eastman School of Music and traveled the country with a jazz trio. A few years on the road was enough to convince him to settle in one place and reconsider his earlier decision to stray from his classical... MORE ››

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