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Families share painful losses
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OAKLAND -- Lorrain Taylor had a dream. She's had many dreams, but
this one was different. She was in a bare room and her son, Obadiah,
was there. She said, "Oh, Obadiah, don't just stand there. Give me a
hug."
He walked over, hugged her and she said, "It's going to be a good
year, isn't it?"
"Yes, Mom, it is a good year."
She woke up and it was New Year's Day 2007 and she had a vision
of what this new year might hold.
Seven years ago, on Feb. 8, 2000, Obadiah, 22, a Merritt College
student, and his twin brother, Ibade, a barber dreaming of opening
his own shop, died after they were cut ...
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'Homage' revives forgotten arias of the golden age
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times
; ...concert staple these days. Moravian-born diva Maria Jeritza helped introduce "Tosca" in 1900 and sang...s "Das Wunder der Heliane," intended for Jeritza, but originally sung by Jeritza's rival, Lotte Lehmann. Regarded as the...
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Missing Cruz is found dead; Autopsy helps ID Filipina analyst
Newspaper article from: Filipino Reporter
; ...26-2004 The elderly parents of Maria Pilar Cruz, the missing Wall Street...strong to find justice for Pipay (Maria's nickname)." Her daughter...Czechoslovakian opera diva named Maria Jeritza and is still known in the neighborhood...
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Recordings -- Vienna State Opera Live, Vols. 13-16
Magazine article from: Opera News
; ...2 (2) VOL 14. WAGNER (1933). Huni-Mihacsek, Jeritza, Runge, Ursuleac; Lorenz, Mayr, Schorr, Volker...or so of Mayr's Hunding. There is rather more of Maria Jeritza's Brunnhilde on a bad night: she sounds hoarse...
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Thumbs up for 'Turandot'
Newspaper article from: Beacon News, The (Aurora, IL)
; ...voice on the planet, perfect for the role of Turandot. Maria Jeritza, a gorgeous Diva who sang the role at the Met in 1926...out the role. Puccini was quite a womanizer and while Jeritza succumbed and shared his bed, Raisa had an attentive...
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`Salute to Symphony' reaches out next week
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe
; ...program ("Nacht und Traeume," "Gretchen am Spinnrade," "Ave Maria," "Der Hirt auf dem Felsen"); she must compete with memories...prominent singers of the past -- such Vienna favorites as the Maria Jeritza, Lotte Lehmann, Maria C
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Kathleen Battle...and when she was good...
Newspaper article from: Tri-State Defender
; ...fodder for the press and the public. Foremost in mind Maria Callas, Giudetta Pasta, Nellie Melba, Tiana Lemnitz...Monserrat Caballe (another no show for engagements), Maria Jeritza, Rosa Ponselle, and others. Sometimes, divas were...
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The face of modern opera
Newspaper article from: Evening Standard - London
; ...and was seen soon after at the Met with the effulgent Maria Jeritza as heroine. The composer was Erich Wolfgang Korngold...hero, Paul, cannot get over the death of his wife, Maria a common condition after 4,000 Viennese, mostly young...
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Tosca - out with a bang
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...at the Met in New York, the knife with which Tosca (Maria Jeritza) murders the evil Baron Scarpia (Antonio Scotti) at...During the famous Covent Garden production of 1965, Maria Callas's hair caught fire while she was singing the...
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"Infinite riches in a little room": the music collections in the Pierpont Morgan Library.
Magazine article from: Notes
; ...part of Buondelmonte, Donizetti's rifacimento of Maria Stuarda; a copyist's manuscript of part of the vocal...corrections by Korngold throughout, that once belonged to Maria Jeritza, who sang the role of Marietta at the first performance...
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Opera choice: Nabucco/ Tosca
Newspaper article from: Scotland on Sunday
; ...quintessential dramatic soprano role. Outstanding Toscas have included Geraldine Farrar, Maria Jeritza (who sang Vissi d'arte lying down), Leontyne Price and Maria Callas, whose performances with Titto Gobbi's Scarpia are the stuff of legend...
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