Weatherford and Colón create a rapturously described, evocatively illustrated account of the life of groundbreaking African-American opera singer Leontyne Price. Her musical path began in the ...
After winning a vocal competition in 1975, she starred in “Treemonisha,” which ended up on Broadway. She also sang for a senator. By Neil Genzlinger Listen to the soaring voices of Maria Callas, ...
Big Auntie sits in the parlor listening to French art songs on the phonograph. They sound, she says, “a little like the cha cha cha.” Past the veranda of the one-story. frame house runs South Fifth ...