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Rise Stevens: A Life in Music

John Pennino

Baskerville Publishers

2711 Park Hill Drive, Fort Worth, Texas 76109

1880909758, $39.95, 416 pages plus CD, 1-817-923-1064, www.baskervillepublishers.com

John Pennino has written a new and definitive biography of Rise Stevens (a woman who enjoyed a fabulous mezzo soprano opera soloist at the Met for over 25 years), for the Baskerville Publishers Great Voices Series. The tenth volume of this consistently impressive series, "Rise Stevens: A Life in Music," includes a CD of 26 rare recordings, plus works by Bizet, ...

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