Leontyne Price, Soprano
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Leontyne Price, beautiful in a gown of blue sequins, sopranoing by heart and tonally (after hours of villainous bearded dodecaphonists), sang Sam Barber’s Hermit Songs perfectly but with a trace of Southern accent, Lou Harrison’s Rapunzel aria gorgeously but with a suggestion of Southern Drawl, Sauguet’s La Voyante in elegant French but with a shadow of Southern croon. Her success was so great that she was permitted an encore, and performed an unaccompanied spiritual with no accent at all!
Ned Rorem, The Paris Diary of Ned Rorem (via tenestelapromessa)
“We should not have a tin cup out for something as important as the arts in this country, the richest in the world. Creative artists are always begging, but always being used when it’s time to show us at our best.”
—Leontyne Price, born on this day in 1927
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