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    Herbert Witherspoon (July 21, 1873 – May 10, 1935) was an American bass singer and opera manager. He was born on July 21, 1873, in Buffalo, New York....
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  • Witherspoon (born 1980), American football player Cora Witherspoon (1890–1957), American actress Dane Witherspoon (1957–2014), American actor Herbert...
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    John Witherspoon (February 5, 1723 – November 15, 1794) was a Scottish-American Presbyterian minister, educator, farmer, slaveholder, and a Founding Father...
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    as general manager. His immediate successor, the former Met bass Herbert Witherspoon, died of a heart attack barely six weeks into his term of office...
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    Johnson became general manager of the Metropolitan Opera, succeeding Herbert Witherspoon, who died just six weeks into his tenure. Johnson held the position...
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    money for the Dunstable War Funds and is recorded on a 78 record by Herbert Witherspoon in 1917. Two of Amy’s songs, ‘An Idle Poet’ (later performed at the...
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    Opera In office 1908–1935 Preceded by Heinrich Conried Succeeded by Herbert Witherspoon General Manager of La Scala In office 1898–1908 Personal details...
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  • Philadelphia Operatic Society. From 1930 to 1935, she worked for Herbert Witherspoon as a vocal coach and stage director at first the Chicago Civic Opera...
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    grand canals in 1925. Future Metropolitan Opera general manager Herbert Witherspoon said that "The little steamboats puffed and screamed and almost drowned...
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    Quintus tenor Riccardo Martin Enya mezzo-soprano Rita Fornia Arth bass Herbert Witherspoon Gloom baritone William Hinshaw Nial tenor Albert Reiss Caradoc tenor...
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    inventor. She attended Mount Notre Dame convent school in Cincinnati. Herbert Witherspoon was one of her voice teachers. MacCue was a contralto. She moved...
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    Peralta Alberto Stagno Teresa Stolz Josef Tamaro Maria Waldmann Herbert Witherspoon Marie van Zandt Irene Abendroth David Bispham Franz Nachbaur Ernestine...
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    in Cincinnati, Ohio. On June 20, 1916, in Manhattan she married Herbert Witherspoon, he had been previously married. Her widower died in 1935 after being...
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  • 1905) May 3 – Charles Manners, operatic bass (born 1857) May 10 – Herbert Witherspoon, operatic bass and opera manager (born 1873) May 16 – Leopold Lichtenberg...
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  • Linderman (1875–1960), teacher of dramatic arts, entertainer, writer Herbert Witherspoon (1873–1935), music history Carl Valentin Wunderle (1866–1944), violinist...
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    Bruno Huhn, and privately with William Wade Hinshaw, Paul Savage and Herbert Witherspoon. Tillotson began her performance career while a college student....
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    recordings were made by Herbert Witherspoon, Ethel Whiteside, Franklin Booth, each for the Victor recording label. Witherspoon recorded his version of...
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    the radio broadcasts of company productions from its stage. When Herbert Witherspoon died at his post in 1935, Ziegler was considered for his replacement...
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    in 1905. Her collaborators in this latter concert included bass Herbert Witherspoon, tenor Clarence B. Shirley, contralto Helen Allen Hunt, and conductor...
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    Gentele was the second general director of the Metropolitan, behind Herbert Witherspoon in 1935, to die before the opening night of his first season as general...
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    festival performed Bach's Magnificat with Louise Kirkby Lunn and Herbert Witherspoon. In 1909 Elwes sang Gerontius and the St Matthew Passion Evangelist...
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  • October 2023 Carol Vaness 194 soprano 20 March 1977 13 March 2004 Herbert Witherspoon 194 bass 22 November 1908 28 March 1916 Otto Kemlitz 194 tenor 17...
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    recording pseudonym Alice Green. She later studied singing with Herbert Witherspoon. Kline began her career as a paid soloist with several churches in New...
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    City, singing in famous churches and studying under opera manager Herbert Witherspoon. She was described as having a "rich contralto voice." In January...
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    George Siemonn and then studied further with Oscar Saenger and Herbert Witherspoon in New York. She made her debut in 1912 with the Aborn Opera Company...
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    and Boris Hambourg also in attendance), the 6th in Winnipeg (with Herbert Witherspoon and Cecil Forsyth assisting), where the Earl Grey trophy was competed...
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    Cumnock School of Expression and in New York with David Bispham and Herbert Witherspoon. She went abroad to study opera with Carlo Sebastiani. Bartlett was...
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  • Canadian Non-Fiction in 2006. It was optioned for film adaptation by Reese Witherspoon's Type A Productions. In 2017 Godfrey wrote a follow-up to her book with...
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  • training with Harold Burnham Maryott (born 1878), music history with Herbert Witherspoon (1873–1935); harmony and counterpoint with Hans Franklin Madsen (1887–1971)...
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    Friederike Grün, Teresa Stolz, Marie van Zandt, Maria Waldmann, Herbert Witherspoon, Tecla Vigna, Lizzie Graham, and Nina Bertini-Humphreys. See: List...
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