taught New York to sing

Barbara Maier Gustern, a 4-foot-11 woman from the small town of Boonville, Ind., has made an incredible and little-known impact on New York’s overlapping music scenes, helping cabaret artists, stage actors, and rock stars get the best of it. guided for. from their voices. Miss Gustern, who died last month, had unusual metaphors that made …

Alex Haley Taught America About Race — and How to Write to a Young Man

“Roots” was finally released on August 17, 1976, 12 years after it started. In that American bicentennial, it was the right book at the right time. The author knew he was going to be big, but even he was unprepared for his immense popularity and burgeoning, staggering fame. properly, James Baldwin evaluated “Roots” for Book …

Stephen Sondheim: The Essential Musical Dramatist Who Taught Us

On her own, her verbal agility and musical sensitivity were outstanding, but she couldn’t produce such wonderful characters as Sweeney in “Sweeney Todd”, Desiree Armfeldt in “A Little Night Music” and Fosca (no rhyme) in “Passion”. ). An innate understanding of how the components of musical theater could be turned into drama was his greatest …

R. Allen Gardner, 91, Died; He Taught Sign Language to a Chimpanzee His Name

Washoe was 10 months old when her foster parents started teaching her to speak, and five months later they were already starting to announce her success. He not only learned the words; he could also link them together by forming phrases such as “waterfowl” when he saw a pair of swans, and “waterfowl” when he …

He taught Ancient Texts at Oxford. Now Accused of Stealing Some.

He had the perfect credentials. Nobody objects to this. Dirk Obbink was a respected lecturer at Oxford University. He received a MacArthur Foundation grant in 2001 for his work on papyrus and was in an important role helping to run the Oxyrhynchus Papyri, the world’s largest collection of ancient papyrus. Egyptian Exploration Society and Oxford’s …

Challenging How History Is Taught, James W. Loewen Dies At 79

He patiently explained to his class: Blacks have never taken over the Southern states. All had white governors, and all but one had a white legislative majority. Restructuring governments “did not make a mess”. They created the best constitutions the South had in the 19th century and better governments than any other in the South. …