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From:  "Elizabeth Finkler" <mightymezzo@h...>
"Elizabeth Finkler" <mightymezzo@h...>
Date:  Thu Dec 28, 2000  8:23 pm
Subject:  Re: [vocalist-temporary] Schumann-Heinke


>From: Annie Hughes <aehughes@y...>
>From: Annie Hughes <aehughes@y...>
>
>I studied with Edna J. Wood when I was young who was
>Carol Burnett's voice teacher (before she was famous).
> Miss Wood studied with Ernestine Schumann-Heinke - is
>anyone familiar with her?
>

Uh, sort of. My grandmother saw her play Katisha in "The Mikado." Remarked
that by then she was so crippled that she could barely move around the
stage.

Elizabeth Finkler
http://home.earthlink.net/~mightymezzo/
mightymezzo@h...
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"...and she knew that we are bound, one to another, in licentious
benevolence, for only a single day, and that day was nearly over." --John
Cheever, "Christmas Is a Sad Season for the Poor"

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