Podcast appearances and mentions of Beverly Sills

From the bold reinvention of Maria Callas to the grace and resilience of Marian Anderson, this episode blends history, inspiration, and lifestyle insight for performers and everyday women alike. Bri also shares practical confidence tips inspired by these legends, plus an exclusive Spring Sale from Thrive Market—your go-to source for clean beauty, sustainable pantry items, and wellness staples. Whether you're an opera lover, a working artist, or a woman balancing a 9-to-5 with creative dreams, this episode is your reminder that you, too, can break the mold. Host Bri Cooper Email: 728productions@gmail.com Thanks to our partners at THRIVE MARKET! Join today and get 30% off your first order as well as a gift up to $60. Visit www.thrivemarket.com/bricoopermezzo Instagram Harbour for the Arts Instagram Bri Cooper, Mezzo Soprano, MBA, BM (@bricooper.mezzosoprano) • Instagram photos and videos Spotify Playlists Harbour for the Arts Tik Tok Bri Cooper Mezzo Soprano SHOPPINGBy merch from my website: OPERALUSCIOUS HOLIDAY SHOP! Shop my merch!Merch Need a part time job! Try Reflex app for retail ssignments use my referal code bcooper621 https://workreflex.com/?code=BCOOPER621 Use my Rakuten Code

Yesterday was World AIDS Day and many of the people I admire and follow on various social media platforms made beautiful and heartfelt posts in commemoration of this day and all the many souls that have been lost over the decades to this hideous disease. I want to weigh in today with my own tribute: to the exceptional American baritone John Reardon, who died of this disease in 1988 at the age of 58. This is an expanded version of a bonus episode I published more than four years ago which constituted a deep exploration of his recorded legacy, in both live or studio recordings, of musical, opera (especially contemporary works), and art song. You'll hear guest contributions from the two Judys, (Raskin and Blegen; sorry, no Garland today), as well as Jo Sullivan, Beverly Wolff, Anja Silja, Evelyn Lear, and James McCracken, conducted by Leonard Bernstein, Thomas Beecham, Sarah Caldwell, Erich Leinsdorf, Frederic Waldman, Lehman Engel, Jorge Mester, as well as that great stage director Bliss Hebert doing a guest turn tickling the ivories in two song cycles. If you listen extra closely, you may even hear a line or two from Beverly Sills, Robert Merrill, Cesare Siepi, and Jussi Björling! The episode also includes a birthday tribute to Maria Callas and, as a memorial to all who have succumbed to AIDS, “When Angels Cry,” a song by Janis Ian. Countermelody is a podcast devoted to the glory and the power of the human voice raised in song. Singer and vocal aficionado Daniel Gundlach explores great singers of the past and present focusing in particular on those who are less well-remembered today than they should be. Daniel's lifetime in music as a professional countertenor, pianist, vocal coach, voice teacher, and journalist yields an exciting array of anecdotes, impressions, and “inside stories.” At Countermelody's core is the celebration of great singers of all stripes, their instruments, and the connection they make to the words they sing. By clicking on the following link (https://linktr.ee/CountermelodyPodcast) you can find the dedicated Countermelody website which contains additional content including artist photos and episode setlists. The link will also take you to Countermelody's Patreon page, where you can pledge your monthly support at whatever level you can afford.

durée : 00:15:32 - Disques de légende du lundi 30 septembre 2024 - Julius Rudel est directeur artistique du New York City Opera de 1957 à 1979, au moment où Beverly Sills, immense soprano, est au sommet de ses moyens.

durée : 00:15:32 - Disques de légende du lundi 30 septembre 2024 - Julius Rudel est directeur artistique du New York City Opera de 1957 à 1979, au moment où Beverly Sills, immense soprano, est au sommet de ses moyens.

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try. –Beverly Sills Check out John Lee Dumas' award winning Podcast Entrepreneurs on Fire on your favorite podcast directory. For world class free courses and resources to help you on your Entrepreneurial journey visit EOFire.com

  You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try. –Beverly Sills Check out John Lee Dumas' award winning Podcast Entrepreneurs on Fire on your favorite podcast directory. For world class free courses and resources to help you on your Entrepreneurial journey visit EOFire.com

In the midst of our recent move, I came across a stash of old “mixtapes” (actually CDs and much other archival material. One such item which particularly moved me was one entitled “A Golden Age Christmas 2003” which I handed out to my colleagues and friends twenty years ago. Looking over the tracklist, I realized that this was a sort of early iteration of Countermelody: me sharing music that I particularly loved with people that I cared about. Today's podcast uses as its basis that same CD (slightly trimmed in length) and features performances by a glorious group of singers ranging from Olive Fremstad, Charles Gilibert, and Margarete Matzenauer from the early years of the twentieth century to such later favorites as Elly Ameling, Beverly Sills, and Leontyne Price. I can't guarantee that this episode will put you in the holiday spirit, but I sure hope it does! Countermelody is a podcast devoted to the glory and the power of the human voice raised in song. Singer and vocal aficionado Daniel Gundlach explores great singers of the past and present focusing in particular on those who are less well-remembered today than they should be. Daniel's lifetime in music as a professional countertenor, pianist, vocal coach, voice teacher, and journalist yields an exciting array of anecdotes, impressions, and “inside stories.” At Countermelody's core is the celebration of great singers of all stripes, their instruments, and the connection they make to the words they sing. By clicking on the following link (https://linktr.ee/CountermelodyPodcast) you can find the dedicated Countermelody website which contains additional content including artist photos and episode setlists. The link will also take you to Countermelody's Patreon page, where you can pledge your monthly support at whatever level you can afford. Bonus episodes available exclusively to Patreon supporters are currently available and further bonus content including interviews and livestreams is planned for the upcoming season.

Anthony Strand joins us for a highly cultured episode to talk about racism disclaimers, Lobster Newburgh, 70s fashion, Johnny Cash being a giant, Conan O'Brien's lip-sync “puppet” nightmares…oh yeah, and Beverly Sills is here! Was opera big in the 70s or was the monoculture small? Is this the weirdest episode? One of the best? Both? Do we, like the Muppets, wish we could hang out with Beverly Sills and practice our spoon-hanging? Let's find out! https://muppeturgy.com/episodes/beverly-sills

This past week the opera world was plunged into mourning over the sudden death of Renata Scotto. Originally I had intended this week's episode to be devoted to her memory. But I can't even speak her name without bursting into tears. In other words, I need more time as I try to come to terms with her demise. I have decided to feature the matchless singing actor in the first episode of Season Five. In the meantime, we have another momentous occasion (and artist) to acknowledge: the 90th birthday of the English Rose: the phenomenal Janet Baker. Given that I could probably devote an entire podcast to Dame Janet, and given the wealth of material in my personal collection featuring this artist, much of it rare and unusual, I have chosen to feature this beloved artist in her third full Countermelody episode. There are few vocal artists in the history of classical music who have exhibited greater versatility than Janet Baker; this episode features many rare performances across the entirety of her long career of repertoire in which she had virtually no equal, as well as music in which she also excels but which might prove surprising. Thus we hear the expected mélodie, Lied, British song and Bach aria alongside Purcell's Dido and pants roles by both Mozart and Richard Strauss. But we also hear such surprises as Monteverdi's Poppea (sinuously and surprisingly sexy), Bellini's Romeo (opposite Beverly Sills), William Walton's Cressida (in the 1976 version of his opera Troilus and Cressida refashioned expressly for Baker), and a sublime extended orchestral song by Respighi, as well as the ultimate jaw-dropper, Rossini's Cenerentola! We wish long life and continued health and vitality to one of the greatest mezzo-sopranos of the twentieth century! Countermelody is a podcast devoted to the glory and the power of the human voice raised in song. Singer and vocal aficionado Daniel Gundlach explores great singers of the past and present focusing in particular on those who are less well-remembered today than they should be. Daniel's lifetime in music as a professional countertenor, pianist, vocal coach, voice teacher, and journalist yields an exciting array of anecdotes, impressions, and “inside stories.” At Countermelody's core is the celebration of great singers of all stripes, their instruments, and the connection they make to the words they sing. By clicking on the following link (https://linktr.ee/CountermelodyPodcast) you can find the dedicated Countermelody website which contains additional content including artist photos and episode setlists. The link will also take you to Countermelody's Patreon page, where you can pledge your monthly support at whatever level you can afford. Bonus episodes available exclusively to Patreon supporters are currently available and further bonus content including interviews and livestreams is planned for the upcoming season.

Un Día Como Hoy 2 de Julio: Nace: 1714: Christoph Willibald Gluck, compositor alemán (f. 1787). 1877: Hermann Hesse escritor alemán. 1923: Wislawa Szymborska, poetisa y traductora polaca, premio nobel de Literatura en 1996 (f. 2012). Fallece: 1566: Nostradamus, astrólogo y boticario francés (n. 1503). 1591: Vincenzo Galilei, laudista y compositor italiano (n. 1520). 1778: Jean-Jacques Rousseau, escritor, compositor y filósofo suizo (n. 1712). 1961: Ernest Hemingway, novelista, cuentista y periodista estadounidense, premio Nobel de literatura; suicidio (n. 1899). 1977: Vladimir Nabokov, novelista y crítico ruso (n. 1899). 1999: Mario Puzo, escritor y guionista estadounidense (n. 1920). 2007: Beverly Sills, soprano y personalidad televisión estadounidense (n. 1929). Conducido por Joel Almaguer. Una Producción de Sala Prisma Podcast. 2023

Transcript included below…It could be argued that we live in an age of impatience. We want our Amazon Prime delivery to arrive the day before we click the mouse.  We want our restaurant food hot and ready as soon as we pay order it.  We want “instant results” with less effort.Sure, some of those things are possible (maybe not Amazon a day early; I was of course being hyperbolic.)  But it's my conviction that good things come to those who wait…and that better things come to those who invest with patience and persistence.But these are not universal virtues; we're often looking for hacks that can sometimes come in the form of shortcuts or substitutes.  These impatient steps can lead to a certain amount of results, but at what cost?Cramming in CollegeWhen I was in college, many of my professors gave me a heads-up about when our major exams would be.  And I knew that studying for these exams would be essential.But sometimes I was guilty of “cramming” the night before, having done little or no studying thus far. Occasionally, I pulled off a B+ on the exam, but the downside was that shortly after the test was finished, I had forgotten most of the material.I had used my short-term memory as my cache for the information on the test, because I had crammed it.  But here's the thing – I was earning a music degree.  Do you think some of those early concepts (especially music theory) came back later and needed to be recalled for “next-level” courses and exams? Yep.  So, I learned quickly not to cram, at least not in my music major.Speaking transparently, I still did some cramming of concepts for some of my General University Requirements, but looking back, that wasn't wise either.I had substituted cramming for actual diligent study, and I reaped what I had sown.Fire and WaterTwice, recently, I've seen signs that have cautioned me against substitutes for the sake of safety.I was walking in the local Wal-Mart and spotted a multi-pack of fire clickers.  You know, the lighters with the trigger and gooseneck end that you can use to light a fire on a grill or in a wood stove.On the packaging, I saw these words:“No lighter is child-proof.  There is no substitute for proper adult supervision.”I agree.  Giving little 3-year-old Johnny access to one of these lighters and letting him run through the house or the yard with his “torch” could lead to serious problems. And that's probably why this warning was issued.  Some parent somewhere abdicated their responsibility to keep the lighters out of reach, and either by action or omission, let a young one access the lighter unsupervised, and then…there was a fire of some kind.The same day, I took my daughter to swim practice, where I observed this sign on the wall at our local pool:“Watch your children for pool safety; there is no substitute for supervision.”This warning sign spoke volumes, even in a venue where three lifeguards were standing ready.Now, these two warnings about fire and water imply the potential for extreme scenarios, but each of the warnings was likely the result of a parent choosing in the moment not to be as attentive and present, perhaps because they were trying to do too much at once. Now, kids can be hard to chase down.  Some of them abuse trust or think they can do more than they can.I can't speak intelligently to potential circumstances where fire or water got out of control, and they're likely a lot more complicated circumstances than I might realize, but one thing is true: if those children had received undivided adult supervision, their safety would have been improved significantly.“Cakedrastic” Circumstances On a lighter note, I've tried my hand at baking things with comedic results.  And sometimes this has happened as a result of trying to substitute an ingredient or a method that had not been tested.I've tried an ingredient substitution, and watched in sorrow as my “baking project” became a drastic baking disaster. I had been looking for a shortcut, or I was impatient and didn't want to run to the store or visit a neighbor to get the actual ingredient I needed, and thus, I allowed a substitute to decrease the quality (or obliterate the quality) of what I was putting together.But as the soprano Beverly Sills is known to have said, “There are no shortcuts to anywhere worth going.”The Iron TriangleYou may have heard of the Iron Triangle.  I talk about this sometimes, because I think it's a super important picture to remember.  It applies to a lot of different aspects of life, whether business or just doing things we do each day.There are three sides of the Iron Triangle: Good, Fast and Cheap.  According to the rule, you can have two sides, but not all three.If something is good and fast, like overnight shipping, it's not going to be cheap. If something is good and cheap, like a professional graphics designer waiving his fee for your album art as he “makes time” in his off hours to gradually get it done, it's probably not going to be fast.And if something is fast and cheap, like a quickly microwaved freezer meal, it's probably not going to be that good.We have to be able to accept these parameters, because they're almost on the caliber of laws of nature.  They really can't be bent.  We can sacrifice aspects of each of the sides in favor of having all of them, but they won't hold together as well.Learning the GuitarLet's take this idea of “no substitutes” into the guitar learning realm, which is a huge part of my passion – equipping beginning and intermediate Christian guitarists.In this day and age, we have a lot of options at our disposal for guitar learning.  Some are in-person, with a one-on-one guitar teacher.  Others are at workshops or conferences as a group.Then there are apps and digital products like recorded instructional videos.There's also something called “edutainment” – the idea of sharing an Instagram reel or a YouTube short that has 60 seconds or so of information…with a nugget of instructional wisdom, encapsulated in a fun, entertaining manner. I've been trying my hand at these recently.  And if you wanted to follow me, I certainly wouldn't mind.  I'm findable on Instagram at www.Instagram.com/guitarsuccess4UI'm also findable with a whole set of YouTube shorts at www.youtube.com/@guitarsuccess4uSo, each of these learning methods has merits, and each has downsides.Without drawing a Venn diagram and taking opportunity each apart, I will say that when it comes to learning the guitar, some substitutes are less optimal.  Like those that don't have personal connection.As relational beings, we as humans appreciate the opportunity to have genuine interaction with some sort of dialogue (I'm not talking about Artificial Intelligence.)  Emotional exchanges where we have the opportunity to encourage each other are more valuable than we may realize.So, a guitar method book, a DVD, or digital iterations of these in the forms of PDFs and online videos, can only take us so far.  I can't ask a PDF if it was glad to be a part of my guitar development that day.  I can't receive sincere, specific, verbal insights from a pre-recorded video about what I'm working on.And try as they might, the innovators of AI cannot replace a real person.  They might get close with permutations of responses, but an actual conversation with a person is unique and special.Again, those tools (and digital interfaces like apps, quizzes, and even guitar-emulating video games) can provide value and enjoyable experiences.But there is no substitute for interpersonal interaction.To me, the best of both worlds is to have excellent teaching materials with…a personal touch.  And I've done this for a couple decades – offering one-on-one lessons with worksheets and charts I've made, that I've personally walked my students through, giving them gentle encouragement and accountability along the way.But with a studio roster of 50 students a week with a waiting list, something had to change for me.  In addition to touring and recording, life also got fuller with the beautiful addition of family.Here's where I was…I didn't want my learners to have to experience unnecessary substitutions, at least not in large amounts.So eventually, the Lord brought to my wife's mind the idea of creating an online experience where students could access the most relevant concepts I have curated from my three decades of guitar playing…and those could be combined with actual interaction with…me.We call this unique experience GuitarSuccess4U.The teaching materials are meticulously crafted to be simple and accessible (and that took literally thousands of hours, so as to save my members a lot of that time.)  Totally worth it.Side question: what's the only non-renewable resource we use every day?  Time.  Now, there's a difference between saving time and wanting to do something that takes almost no time.  I'm wary of someone who uses language like “instant” or “overnight.”  As a musician, nothing, and I repeat, nothing has come to me instantly or overnight.  Some of my best songs have literally taken years to develop.  That might discourage you, but if you're in this for the long game, you'll see the value of taking the time to dig in and discover your potential.Also, never underestimate the power of community for the benefits of encouragement, accountability, and the gentle reminder that you are not alone.The interpersonal interaction inside GuitarSuccess4U includes our weekly Zoom calls, as well as comment threads in the portal where the membership materials are.  My goal is to host an in-person guitar camp for my members in the near future.And while the membership is at a manageable size, I do offer private one-on-one lessons over Zoom, and in person for those who are within driving distance of my studio.But in this way, I have offered my members a battle-tested curriculum with videos, audio files, transcripts, and PDF worksheets for maximum effective learning and retention…and they experience the blessing of community as well.  Peek at our online Google Reviews and you'll see how much our members love this.Think about this for a moment.  If you watch an instructional guitar video, and you have a question, you might be able to find an answer with enough sleuthing.  But what about being able to bring that question to the one who created that video and that worksheet, in a real-time Zoom call?I love answering questions based on the material inside GuitarSuccess4U.  I also love it when our members help each other answer questions.If you desire to get out of some guitar ruts, to explore new musical frontiers, and to discover your guitar potential for the glory of God, I encourage you to check out www.GuitarSuccess4U.com. You just might find the learning experience you've been waiting for.Remember – there are lots of easy shortcuts that promise “hacks” for learning the guitar, but many of them only take you so far.  True, quality musical offerings require a “long game” mindset.  And that is a worthy thing. But we have found a way to save you a lot of time, to help you learn the things you need to learn for your definition of guitar success.  There is time that's required…it's not going to happen instantly or overnight, but in that way it actually feels more worthy, because you've invested the time. It's been my experience that if I don't invest time or resources in something, I just don't value it as much.  If I'm given something, I appreciate it, but if I earn it, or earn the money to purchase it, I think I'll take much better care of it.The same could be true in an investment like this.  We find that when people pay, they pay attention.   So, accept no substitutes for good guitar teaching.  I challenge each of my members to put a reasonable amount of time and effort into their learning, and when they do, I hear about the wonderful results they are getting.Some of the best music we will ever play is waiting just on the other side of some good, diligent hard work.  That sounds a lot like serious fun to me.I hope today was a good balance of ideas that were convicting and encouraging.  But please, lean into your guitar pursuits.  They are worth it.  And please check out GuitarSuccess4U.  And share this episode with someone.  And follow me on Instagram and YouTube.  You know, all the things.I'll leave you with this quote from the famous inventor Thomas Edison.  He said, “There is no substitute for hard work.”I really don't have anything to add to that.  Thanks for listening, and I'll see you next time.Thanks for reading Guitar Serious Fun! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit guitarseriousfun.substack.com

Un día como hoy, 25 de mayo: Acontece: 1521: finaliza la Dieta de Worms cuando Carlos V promulga el Edicto de Worms, que declara proscrito a Martín Lutero y prohíbe la posesión y lectura de sus escritos. 1895: en Londres (Reino Unido) la policía arresta al escritor irlandés Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) por ser homosexual (más exactamente, por «cometer actos de grosera indecencia con otros varones»). Será sentenciado a dos años de cárcel. Nace: 1803: Ralph Waldo Emerson, poeta y filósofo estadounidense (f. 1882). 1929: Beverly Sills, soprano y actriz estadounidense (f. 2007). Fallece: 1681: Pedro Calderón de la Barca, dramaturgo y poeta español (n. 1600). 1934: Gustav Holst, trombonista, compositor y educador británico (n. 1874). 2011: Leonora Carrington, pintora surrealista y escritora mexicana de origen británico (n. 1917). Conducido por Joel Almaguer. Una producción de Sala Prisma Podcast. 2023

In a career that spanned seven decades, the operatic superstar played to packed audiences and received countless awards and honors.

  You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try. - Beverly Sills Check out John Lee Dumas' award winning Podcast Entrepreneurs on Fire on your favorite podcast directory. For world class free courses and resources to help you on your Entrepreneurial journey visit EOFire.com

Join Disney's Ike Eisenmann, and author, Jonathan Rosen, as they chat with Neva Small from the beloved musical, Fiddler on the Roof!Neva discusses her role of Chava in Fiddler, working with Topol and Norman Jewison,  making her singing debut with the New York City Opera at the age of ten with Beverly Sills, touring with the documentary, Fiddler's Journey to the Big Screen, and much more!

Join Disney's Ike Eisenmann, and author, Jonathan Rosen, as they chat with Neva Small from the beloved musical, Fiddler on the Roof!Neva discusses her role of Chava in Fiddler, working with Topol and Norman Jewison,  making her singing debut with the New York City Opera at the age of ten with Beverly Sills, touring with the documentary, Fiddler's Journey to the Big Screen, and much more!

Transcript included below…Today, we're going to talk about fear.  Really?  Fear?  Yep.  Fear falls on the serious side of Guitar Serious Fun.Now, I know that fear is not what we might call a fun subject, per se, but it is relevant to our guitar journeys, so I believe it's important to talk about it. I've battled fear much of my life, and also over the course of much of my music career.  Fear has taken on many forms for me. The subject of fear has enough complexity to it that I believe it warrants a two-parter here at Guitar Serious Fun.  So today's episode is one of two episodes where we'll discuss the 10 fears we face.  We'll talk about five today, and five more next week. And spoiler alert: at the epic conclusion of all of this, as we talk about the 10th fear, it will be the only fear I believe we need to embrace.  The rest are fears we need to overcome in the strength of the Lord.As I address each of these fears, I'll provide some words of encouragement, and I'll cite some scripture at certain points as well.  Interestingly enough, the phrase “do not fear” or some variation of it, appears in the Bible 365 times. I'd say that's evidence that the Lord does not want us to be afraid. So, let's talk about how we can face fear.To start things off, I'd like to provide a window into some of the mission trips I've served on.High school and college were wonderful opportunities for me to step outside my comfort zone, to look outside my life, and to travel hundreds or thousands of miles to serve in a missions setting.  During high school and college, I went on 10 mission trips over the course of about 10 years. Whether doing inner-city street evangelism, or building houses for the impoverished, I encountered many different scenarios where I could have been afraid.Most of the time, I was supervised by adult leaders who had an eye on the situation, and there was also an over-arching missions organization coordinating the effort, so things were intentionally looked after.  But we didn't have cell phones in those days, so sometimes we felt a bit more vulnerable.One mission trip involved bringing hot meals into low-income urban housing where people were living out their final days in isolation, battling terminal illness. For this leg of the mission trip I had at least two other people with me as we brought meals to these fragile people.  It was coordinated through an organization that prepared the food, but needed teams to distribute it.I recall being in an elevator as we made our way to a dark, quiet floor in what was a pretty rough part of the city.  We knocked on apartment doors to give these people the meals they had signed up for.  Everyone thanked us, and most of the time they opened their doors just enough for us to hand them the food and leave. We were sophomores in college, and one of my teammates was trembling slightly as we did our work.  She seemed to be a little afraid. But for me, I had a strangely overwhelming sense of calm.  I can't explain it, except that I felt like the Lord was with me at every turn, and that He offered me His comfort, even in those dark corridors.I was doing His will, and He was with me.  And I suppose it was the fact that I was focusing on serving the Lord that kept fear from overwhelming me. Fear is something many of us battle on our musical journeys.  Some kinds of fear are more obvious; others are much more subtle.  And some are fears we struggle with…even though we don't even realize that we do.I've learned over the years that it's never healthy to make decisions motivated by fear.  It's also not good to live in fear. But fear can be prevalent, so I believe it's important to address 10 fears we can all face as guitarists.  Let's take the first five today, one at a time, in no particular order of significance.#1. Fear of LossIn Matthew 25, Jesus tells the parable of the talents.  This is a familiar story about a master who entrusts various amounts of talents to his servants before he goes on a journey.  I've alluded to this parable in a few different episodes of Guitar Serious Fun, including Episode 46, Reduce it to the Ridiculous – with Dawn Jones.Now, in the context of the parable, a talent was a measure of money.  And although two of the servants doubled their money by prudently investing and stewarding their talents, one of the servants physically buried his talent.This servant in the parable defended himself to his angry master by basically saying he didn't want to lose anything.  Fear of loss is hard, because we have no guarantee of tomorrow, and the reality is that we just might lose things or people who are precious to us. I myself am coming up on the 30th anniversary of the tragic passing of my younger sister.  Loss is a part of life.Even our own lives are not guaranteed to us, right?  So when it comes to music, perhaps we might not cultivate our talents because we're afraid that by investing in them we might lose something – perhaps the time we put into practicing, or the money we invest in resources or instruction.We may fear the loss of our instrument to theft.  We can take precautions, like not leaving our guitars in an unattended vehicle.  We can buy music gear insurance.  But our treasures are meant to be in Heaven, where moth and rust do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal (Matthew 6:20).Having open hands about our stuff can be pretty liberating.  I've heard stories of people who have had possessions stolen, and who have responded in faith with words like, “Well, I guess the Lord doesn't want me to have that right now.”  That's a pretty deep faith.We may fear injury.  Is it important to wear gloves when we handle rough items like chopped wood or sharp metal?  Yes!  Just like we'd wear a seatbelt when driving a car, we can take precautions to protect ourselves.Injuries happen, though – short term or long-term chronic injuries.  I've sustained both.  As of this episode, I can still play the music I want to play, and each day being able to do this is a gift from the Lord.The loss of love ones, our stuff or our abilities are real fears.  Perhaps those fears could lead us to avoid leaning into our musical callings in some way, for fear of loss.But I haven't met a single musician who worked hard or invested in musical development and wished he or she hadn't done so. The only musician I heard about recently who may have regretted purchasing a guitar is the one who, despite being warned not to leave it in his car, did so, and when it was stolen, ended up making payments on an instrument he no longer owned…for the better part of another year.But let's dispel that fear – the fear of loss. I'd rather look back on a life well-lived, and talents well-used, having played a decent guitar and enjoyed it, for however much time the Lord has allowed – than to have not invested in my abilities and some good gear, for fear of loss.#2. Fear of Failure“But what if I fail?”  I've spoken those words at various times in my life.There are many different areas where we might think or say those words.For example, have you thought about stepping forward to share your music with an audience, or to lead worship on the platform at your local church?  Has it occurred to you that some of your audience members might not appreciate your music, or that you might stumble and struggle to play well during a worship service?I've gotten up on the worship platform and played songs I thought I knew.  I've missed chords, dropped words, sung flat, and broken lots of guitar strings.  I've had mornings of worship where I've felt like a “pipin' hot mess”…and yet the Lord has somehow moved through my inadequacies to minister to His people.Interestingly enough, some folks have been very encouraging to me under those circumstances, thanking me for leading them “so well.”Contrast this to other mornings where I have played with great precision and artistry, and been met with “crickets” in terms of verbal congregational response. But over the course of many years, with dedicated practice and experience, I've raised my game and played and sung more and more capably.What about the music industry?  Have you given careful consideration to prayerfully taking the step of faith to pursue music vocationally on some level?  Has it come across your mind that you might “fail” at that? I'm an indie recording artist.  I decided a long time ago that success to me was not household name recognition and six figures of record sales.  It was: making enough money through the use of my talents to provide for my and my family's needs, including their spiritual and emotional needs.If someone's goal is to be a chart-topping platinum record selling artist, selling one million units, and they don't reach that, is that a failure?  I've only sold about 30,000 units total of all four of my albums. Is that failure?  Only when compared with the lofty goal of selling one million units, which, by the way is not realistic for an independent artist without the backing of a significant amount of personnel in the industry.  Side note: even with a label, a booking agency, and all the people involved with marketing an artist, platinum status is not guaranteed.On a related subject, if our goal is to perform concerts and have that be the only source of income to sustain our family, is that realistic, right out of the gate?  Artists who are signed to a label aren't guaranteed financial security in that situation. Some artists may actually need to rely on other sources of income for an extended season to keep their dream in motion.  If that's the case, is that failure?  Again, no. And speaking autobiographically, my performance career has ebbed and flowed from a few dozen shows a year to a hundred shows a year.  I took a full-time and part-time worship position to be more local and to provide more consistent income for my family for over a decade, while still touring part time.  Was that a failure?  I really don't think so.I believe failure is a rather subjective term. As I mentioned in Episode 45 of Guitar Serious Fun – “Glancing Back, Looking Forward,” Nelson Mandela once said, “I never lose.  I either win or I learn.”  And sometimes it's a learning experience that serves us the best.Sometimes our definition of failure hinges on our definition of success.   In other words, if our goals are unrealistic and we don't meet them, we could consider ourselves failures.  I believe we need to be realistic with our goals, and also to be realistic with how we evaluate our accomplishments in light of those goals.  In this current season at the time of this episode, my ministry is not limited to concerts.  It also includes guest worship leading, worship team consulting, and nearly a couple dozen seminars I teach.  I encourage you to peek at www.davidharsh.com to learn more about my onstage offerings, as well as my seminars. The other aspect of our ministry which is gaining momentum and significance is GuitarSuccess4U.  If you haven't discovered GuitarSuccess4U, it could be a game-changer for you or someone you know who wants to develop their guitar skills for the Lord.  The website for that is GuitarSuccess4U.com. Since I don't tour exclusively, have I failed as an artist?  No.  Actually, some touring artists have such a rigorous schedule that they risk missing out on relationships and family moments.  Remember how I stipulated that success for me was also providing for my family's spiritual and emotional needs? Making enough money to sustain them, but not being around for them, does not serve anyone well.I am fortunate to be able to say that I was able to watch each of my daughters' first steps.In Guitar Serious Fun Episode 9, “Do we need to Understand Music to Enjoy it?” I talked about my dad's favorite artist, the late Harry Chapin.He is most famous for a song called “Cat's in the Cradle” that speaks of a missed opportunity as a father, and it begins with these poignant lyrics:My child arrived just the other dayHe came to the world in the usual wayBut there were planes to catch, and bills to payHe learned to walk while I was awayMay it not be so.  If there's a failure that we could fear, that's probably one of them.  The failure to be a present parent.  But as a musician, especially one who is in pursuit of the Lord's will, there's no failure to be afraid of.Remember, it's God's calling.  If He wants to supply the need through other avenues, including working in a non-musical venture for a season, then perhaps that's what He wants to do.But let us not fear failure as professional musicians just because our sights have been set unrealistically high. When it comes to writing songs, will everyone love our music?  Nope.  I've been up onstage performing a concert where people have literally looked at their devices or looked away from the stage the entire time.  Is that failure on my part?  No, it's not.I've played for an audience of two thousand people.  Did two thousand people buy my CD that day?  Nope.  More like 50.  Does that mean that only 50 out of 2000 people liked my music?  No.  I take from these scenarios that it's God's economy, and it's really not about me.  So I don't need to fear failure with my art, my presentation, or my worship leading.  God can use it all.And even when I write songs that don't connect – there's an opportunity to revise them.  A songwriting coach once told me that “Great songs aren't written – they're re-written.”And making mistakes on the platform with my guitar are actually opportunities for self-examination and a better approach to practicing and preparing for next time.So let's not fear failure, because God can use it all.#3. Fear of the UnknownSome people thrive on the adrenalized feeling that comes with an unexpected outcome.  They love the suspense.  Others want to know what the plan is, even before step one is put into action.  I tend to be someone who likes to be “in the know.”  But sometimes we need to walk by faith.  There's walking blindly without any strategy, and there's taking intentional steps of faith, guided by wise counsel.We as musicians may be fearful of what may come in the future as it pertains to our music.  We may wonder what the Lord has for us, and if we don't know, we may hold back on cultivating our gifts.But when we listen to fear, we don't listen to the still small voice of the Lord who has the capacity to prompt us through the Holy Spirit, to step forward. Fear drowns out a lot of what could be a clear, guiding voice, telling us that we need to lean into our gifts. The unknown can be intimidating, but is it intimidating enough that it should keep us from cultivating our talents?  Perhaps not. Will we fully know what the Lord has for us before we embark on it?  I don't think so.  We need to live in the moment, trusting Him for the next season, or the next thing.This will allow us to get down to the business of working on our craft and taking steps to share it with a waiting world. #4. Fear of Hard WorkThis is a fancy way of describing what it's like to be lazy or complacent.  Thomas Edison once said, “There is no excuse for hard work.”  The soprano Beverly Sills once said, “There are no shortcuts to anywhere worth going.”I've been lazy or complacent at different seasons of my musical journey.  I've “phoned it in” and just played what I know.  Sometimes, time is not on my side to cultivate or create new things, and it's all I can do just to maintain my current repertoire.But there are new songs to learn, and to create or to arrange.  And what bridges the gap between not knowing a song and being able to present it capably and confidently?Good old-fashioned hard work.  And with hard work come patience and time, two things that some folks just may not want to invest, at least right now.Not everyone wants to work hard to fulfill their dreams, but those who do experience a tremendous reward of making things happen. But let's not fear hard work.  Some of the best music we will ever play is waiting on the other side of good, hard work.Lastly for today…#5. Fear of Losing Control of our ArtMy first recorded endeavor was a compilation I was invited to be on, where I contributed two of my earliest songs.  With the best of intentions on both sides, the recording came out, and the production aspect had taken both of my songs into new stylistic realms that I hadn't anticipated. I liked what they did.  Liked.  I didn't love it.And unfortunately, my expression of these sentiments wasn't timed well, because the disc was already finished and pressed.  And one of the titles was actually worded wrong in the CD insert.  But hey, that was an excellent learning experience for me. What I learned was this: I like to have some control during production so as to help achieve my vision for the finished product.  This was my first opportunity to record something, so I really can't fault myself or the team that invited me onto the project; there was a lot of “new.”In the years that followed, I acted as the producer for two of my albums, all the way down to overseeing the graphics design.  This had its upsides: I was at the wheel, but the productions hit a ceiling on multiple fronts. My fear of not having control of these projects resulted in what I look back on as amateur offerings for both projects.Another project followed, where I again produced, but incorporated some outside counsel a bit more, and was able to take the production standard up a bit more in how it sounded and looked, but still not to where I knew it could go.Finally, it happened.  I joined forces with a producer and multi-instrumentalist who was so gracious and so talented, and yet had such a clear vision for how to carry the songs across the finish line based on my artistic vision.  I also found a photographer who had an amazing eye for lighting and faces. It took me relinquishing some control to allow a great thing to happen with this album.  I will qualify this scenario: I was shown audio recordings of this producer's past work that met and exceeded my standards.  The same was true of the photographer.I did the diligence to make sure the work of these two artists was on par with what I would be paying them (which was a lot, but worth it) and also commensurate with my expectations.  And it became my best record to date.There can be a scenario where an artist relinquishes control to those who do not steward their gifts well, and the project does not turn out well.  I want to acknowledge that.  Rather than be fearful of losing control, though, I would recommend being diligent and vigilant.  Requesting samples of past work, and even referrals from past clients, can really provide clarity and peace of mind as well.But let's not fear losing control of our art.  God's got this, and we can lean into His sufficiency.As we wind down today, I'd like to go back to the story I opened with about my mission trip adventures.  I was prompted by the Lord to go on these trips.  And they were uncomfortable, had a lot of unknowns, and opportunities to be afraid.  But He was with me.  So I said no to fear.Is the Lord always with us?  Yes, He is, if we've surrendered our lives to Him and accepted what Christ has done.  Embracing the good news of the Gospel is all that's needed to be saved and brought into a relationship with the Lord of the Universe, in whom we find the peace that passes all understanding that will guard our hearts and minds in Christ Jesus (Philippians 4:7).With that, I think we'll let things rest until next week.Today, we talked about the first five fears we can all face as guitarists: Fear of loss, fear of failure, fear of the unknown, fear of hard work, and fear of losing control of our art.We'll come back next week for the epic conclusion.  Remember my spoiler alert?  Fear #10 is the only fear I believe we need to embrace.  Stay tuned for that.What fears are you battling these days?  Do any of the aforementioned fears from today's episode come into play on your journey?  I'd love to know.  Please include them in the comments for this episode.And don't forget to check out GuitarSuccess4U.com, and to like and share what I'm doing here, especially if you're hoping to experience more of these episodes. I'm working to develop my audience for Guitar Serious Fun, and I need your help.  Thanks for listening, and I'll see you next week as we bring this two-part series to its epic conclusion.Thanks for reading Guitar Serious Fun! 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Carrie Hennessey is a wayfinder through the deep, spiritual and technical discoveries of the voice. Early success in the Metropolitan Opera Auditions led to high expectations, but singing after trauma in her early 20s dismantled the ease in her voice and presence. A top artistic mentor once reviewed, ‘This is not the same singer I heard 2 years ago. Go back home', and a famous singer/coach exclaimed, ‘If you'd just sing like Renata Tebaldi…' Hennessey left, losing her identity and voice. Ms. Hennessey has since found her true voice and created a wildly unique and energized career path in theater, opera, symphony work, recital, and education, wearing with pride the hats of trauma-informed teacher and facilitator, producer, singer, actor, innovator and writer. She is known for her soaring voice and richly nuanced characters onstage, and has sung all over the world. Notable highlights include debuting as Kát'á in Kát'á Kabanová at the Cal Shakes Amphitheater, As Blanche Du Bois in Previn's A Streetcar Named Desire. Carrie captivated audiences in an immersive production of The Stronger and as Elle in La Voix Humaine in NYC. Her bold and nuanced interpretation of Strauss' Vier Letzte Lieder resonated among the redwood trees with Music in the Mountains Orchestra. She then channeled the physical comedy of Carol Burnett and fearless vocalism and sense of humor of Beverly Sills in the world premiere ballet by Darrell Grand Moultrie “On the Rocks, Please!” Carrie lights a fire in those around her - teaching music education through lectures, workshops, Master Classes, and is joyfully dedicated to guiding all around her to find their true authentic voice in the world. Currently, Carrie is developing her one woman show about her life in singing, quitting for 12 years post trauma and creating from nothing a versatile and vibrant career steeped in authenticity. My gratitude goes out to Hannah Boissonneault who edits our Masterclass episodes and to Juanitos and Scott Holmes for the music featured in this episode. You can help support the creation of these episodes when you join the Sybaritic Camerata on Patreon. Get started at patreon.com/mezzoihnen. Be on the Studio Class Podcast Megan Ihnen is a professional mezzo-soprano, teacher, writer, and arts entrepreneur who is passionate about helping other musicians and creative professionals live their best lives. Studio Class is an outgrowth of her popular #29DaystoDiva series from The Sybaritic Singer. Let your emerging professionals be part of the podcast! Invite Megan to your studio class for a taping of an episode. Your students ask questions and informative, fun conversation ensues. Special Guest: Carrie Hennessey.

IT'S TIME TO WATCH THE MUPPETS! This week with special guest Beverly Sills. Distracted rants include but are not limited to "the holidays", earwax, Rush Hour, The Santa Clauses Report, tap dancing, the Bigheads, opera, The Muppet Christmas Carol, and much more!"The pigs are excited that guest star Beverly Sills plans to perform the opera "Pigoletto" as the closing number."Follow us:Twitter.com/ittwtmInstagram.com/ittwtm

This week on The Muppet Show: It's guest star Beverly Sills! Apparently a very popular opera singer at the time. And then, Star Trek Animated Series episode, "Yesteryear." We travel in time to see Spock in his youth.

This week on The Muppet Show: It's guest star Beverly Sills! Apparently a very popular opera singer at the time. And then, Star Trek Animated Series episode, "Yesteryear." We travel in time to see Spock in his youth.

Today is the final regular episode of Season Three of Countermelody, as well as the last of my summer series documenting musical life in New York City during the years 1950 through 1975. I am thrilled to start what I hope will be an occasional series of episodes that will drop throughout Season Four, which begins in two weeks. I present to you a small sampling of the extraordinary singing actors that peopled the stage of New York City Opera during the years in question. The most famous of these, of course, is Beverly Sills, and she is aptly represented in her most radiant early prime. But there are many other singers as well, including African American divas Carol Brice and Veronica Tyler, preceded by Camilla Williams (the first Black singer to be awarded a standing contract with a major US opera company… in 1946!). City Opera was celebrated for presenting an absolute slew of new American work in its heyday, and we hear works by Carlilse Floyd, Robert Ward, Douglas Moore, Marc Blitzstein, and Jack Beeson in performances by Phyllis Curtin, Frances Bible, Brenda Lewis, and Ellen Faull. Other divas strutting their stuff include Olivia Stapp, Johanna Meier, and the three mesdames Patricia: Brooks, Wells, and Wise. The episode is capped by some of the rarest live recordings from the stage of City Opera by three singers who made their mark during their heyday, and would be the biggest stars in the world were they singing today: Gilda Cruz-Romo, Maralin Niska, and Carol Neblett, all of whom will be featured in her own episode during Countermelody's upcoming season. A fitting way to end Season Three, as well as a harbinger of vocal delights to come! (Next week will be a preview of the upcoming season!) Countermelody is a podcast devoted to the glory and the power of the human voice raised in song. Singer and vocal aficionado Daniel Gundlach explores great singers of the past and present focusing in particular on those who are less well-remembered today than they should be. Daniel's lifetime in music as a professional countertenor, pianist, vocal coach, voice teacher, and journalist yields an exciting array of anecdotes, impressions, and “inside stories.” At Countermelody's core is the celebration of great singers of all stripes, their instruments, and the connection they make to the words they sing. By clicking on the following link (https://linktr.ee/CountermelodyPodcast) you can find the dedicated Countermelody website which contains additional content including artist photos and episode setlists. The link will also take you to Countermelody's Patreon page, where you can pledge your monthly support at whatever level you can afford. Bonus episodes available exclusively to Patreon supporters are currently available and further bonus content including interviews and livestreams is planned for the upcoming season.

ESPN's new Monday Night Football announcers Joe Buck and Troy Aikman join the pod to talk about how and why they moved from Fox to ESPN during the offseason. Aikman details his talks with Amazon and ESPN and discusses how much Tony Romo's CBS salary played into his decision to leave. Buck talks about his reasons for leaving Fox and why he's decided to give up the baseball booth. A UCLA alum, Aikman also addresses his school's move from the Pac-12 to the Big Ten.   Marchand and Ourand also discuss Amazon's exclusive NFL preseason game, the stunning strength of NFL TV ratings, the future of Sinclair's RSNs, Apple's Friday night MLB telecasts, ESPN's ACC contract and Pat McAfee's exit from SiriusXM.   Mentioned in the podcast this week: Tony Romo, Chris Russo, Pete Bevacqua, Chris Ripley, Katie Nolan, Hannah Keyser, Melanie Newman, Chris Young, Hunter Pence, Stephen Nelson, Fred Gaudelli, Al Michaels, Kirk Herbstreit, Charissa Thompson, Richard Sherman, Ryan Fitzpatrick, Jared Stacy, Marie Donoghue, Bob Kraft, Rupert Murdoch, Kevin Burkhardt, Alana Russo, Michael Nathanson, Burke Magnus, Jeb Bush, Tim Green, Thom Brennaman, Kenny Albert, Anthony Muñoz, Phil Dean, David Hill, Jimmy Pitaro, Eric Shanks, Michelle Beisner-Buck, Joe Davis, Jack Buck, Vin Scully, Richie Zyontz, Tony Kornheiser, Chris Kerber, Beverly Sills, Kevin Burkhardt, Greg Olsen, Tom Brady, Rick Sutcliffe, Brent Musburger, Wally Matthews, Derek Jeter, Robert Heymann, Pat McAfee, Peyton Manning, LeBron James, Charles Barkley, Stephen A. Smith, Jason Benetti, Casey Thompson, Isaiah Garcia-Castaneda, Tim Brando, Gus Johnson, Greg Olsen   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Selections from Lehar's The Merry Widow starring Beverly Sills.Purchase this LP now at:The Merry Widow (LP) (classicalmusicdiscoveries.store)

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In this episode, Patrick and Tommie hoe a row over dogs and gardens, sing the praises of Beverly Sills and the wonderful puppeteer and film wizard Frank Oz, nerd out over Geek Pride Day, dry themselves off with Towel Day, scratch their heads over the Supreme Court, firearms laws, and the state of the nation, applaud gay student activist Zander Moricz, debate Ricky Gervais' recent Netflix special, stand up for police in uniform in Pride parades, and contemplate the sex lives of the inhabitants of Gilligan's Island.

This week's special guest stars are opera queen Beverly Sills and country star and chicken aficionado Kenny Rogers! Kermit takes a real beating this week, there may be a little bit of racism, and have you ever seen a dead man dance? Join us, won't you, on A Feat of Lunatic Daring. Hi-ho and welcome once again to A Feat of Lunatic Daring, the most sensational inspirational celebrational muppetational podcast about Jim Henson and his Muppets! Things are rough right now. Let's talk about something that makes us happy, namely the unmistakable genius of James Maury Henson. https://www.lunaticdaring.com/sources (Sources Page) https://twitter.com/LunaticDaring (Twitter) https://www.instagram.com/lunaticdaring/ (Instagram) https://www.facebook.com/lunaticdaring (Facebook) Also follow https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9DdpUYDBkCCM4BfGRJcpTg? (Antithesis Audio) on YouTube for future video content Chad Instagram & Twitter: https://my.captivate.fm/twitter.com/chadjshonk (@chadjshonk) Nick Twitter: @https://my.captivate.fm/twitter.com/ntjackson17 (ntjackson17) Music by Seth Podowitz https://twitter.com/audiobookseth (@audiobookseth) © Antithesis Audio

[@ 3 min] In ‘Chalk Talk'… Just as summer baseball starts to heat up, a bullpen full of opera summer festival seasons steps up to the plate. We'll give you the lineups of each team and tell you which balls to keep your eyes on… [@ 43 min] In the ‘Two Minute Drill'… ARC is going to CAI and Will Liverman is the next Beverly Sills… operaboxscore.com dallasopera.org/tdo_network_show/opera-box-score facebook.com/obschi1 @operaboxscore IG operaboxscore

Who are our artistic influences? How do the performances and the performers we witness in our youth help to form and inform us as artists? Host Shawn Stengel takes a look back. He ponders the influences in his life before he became a professional. How do all these concerts and shows and singers and actors stick in my mind? How did they shape me for a career I couldn’t even envision having? Or did they? In any case, it’s fun to reminisce about the many memorable moments I’ve been lucky enough to have as an audience member. Who had the biggest impact on me as a performer? Nordica Thabes or Beverly Sills? James Glenn or James Earl Jones? Lena Horne or Mikhail Baryshnikov? Harvey Fierstein or Stockard Channing? They’re all stuck in my little brain somewhere. Still.

Any list of the greatest operatic singers of modern times will include, somewhere near the top, the name Beverly Sills. The statuesque soprano was an audience favorite for decades. Time Magazine once dubbed her :America's Queen of Opera." By the late ‘60s the singer whose nickname was Bubbles had also become a very popular TV talk show guests. But she also struggled with personal crises. Her daughter Muffy was deaf and suffered from multiple sclerosis. Her son Bucky, born two years later, was severely mentally disabled.

I talk about my experience with a poor Micaela and a cancelled flight. Oops! Also, my experience with John Crosby of the Santa Fe Opera and conflicts of interest with my home theater. My long , ongoing discussion with Beverly Sills when she tried to bring me back to the New York City Opera.

"ROBERTO DEVEREUX was a presumed lover of Queen Elizabeth Ist, who was really infatuated with him and had to sign his execution for treasury, although she suffered more the loss of his love. Listen to Beverly Sills, in her acclaimed portrayal of the Queen, one of the best accomplishments of her career"

Un Día Como Hoy 2 de Julio: Nace: 1714: Christoph Willibald Gluck, compositor alemán (f. 1787). 1877: Hermann Hesse escritor alemán. 1923: Wislawa Szymborska, poetisa y traductora polaca, premio nobel de Literatura en 1996 (f. 2012). Fallece: 1566: Nostradamus, astrólogo y boticario francés (n. 1503). 1591: Vincenzo Galilei, laudista y compositor italiano (n. 1520). 1778: Jean-Jacques Rousseau, escritor, compositor y filósofo suizo (n. 1712). 1961: Ernest Hemingway, novelista, cuentista y periodista estadounidense, premio Nobel de literatura; suicidio (n. 1899). 1977: Vladimir Nabokov, novelista y crítico ruso (n. 1899). 1999: Mario Puzo, escritor y guionista estadounidense (n. 1920). 2007: Beverly Sills, soprano y personalidad televisión estadounidense (n. 1929). Una Producción de Sala Prisma Podcast. 2021

I am so happy to be joined again by the legendary Lawrence Leritz. In the second part of our conversation, he discusses his choreographic and singing career, including getting career tips from Patti LaBelle, a call from Jimmy Carter, being manipulated by Berry Gordy, speaking Hebrew with Herschel Bernardi, setting up a dance between Beverly Sills and Peter Martins, and doing comedic dancing with Harvey Keitel and Carly Rae Jepsen! Lawrence is a man of the theater through and through, and you can't miss his enthusiasm about or dedication to his craft.

Un día como hoy, 25 de mayo: Acontece: 1521: finaliza la Dieta de Worms cuando Carlos V promulga el Edicto de Worms, que declara proscrito a Martín Lutero y prohíbe la posesión y lectura de sus escritos. 1895: en Londres (Reino Unido) la policía arresta al escritor irlandés Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) por ser homosexual (más exactamente, por «cometer actos de grosera indecencia con otros varones»). Será sentenciado a dos años de cárcel. Nace: 1803: Ralph Waldo Emerson, poeta y filósofo estadounidense (f. 1882). 1929: Beverly Sills, soprano y actriz estadounidense (f. 2007). Fallece: 1681: Pedro Calderón de la Barca, dramaturgo y poeta español (n. 1600). 1934: Gustav Holst, trombonista, compositor y educador británico (n. 1874). 2011: Leonora Carrington, pintora surrealista y escritora mexicana de origen británico (n. 1917). Una producción de Sala Prisma Podcast. 2021

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try. –Beverly Sills Check out John Lee Dumas' award winning Podcast Entrepreneurs on Fire on your favorite podcast directory. For world class free courses and resources to help you on your Entrepreneurial journey visit EOFire.com

We’re happy to welcome Melissa Buchan, founder of Virtus Fertility Care, Fertility Awareness educator, and health coach, to the show.Whether you’re a man or a woman, married, single, or religious, I encourage you to tune in to this episode. Fertility awareness is about more than babies. It’s about appreciating the human person as a whole, something our culture gets wrong time and again.I love when a quote comes from one arena of life and finds application elsewhere. The quote we discuss comes from American operatic soprano Beverly Sills:“There are no shortcuts to anyplace worth going.”Connect with Melissa on Facebook and Instagram. Click to her website to get your free Cycle Guide and start learning about what this whole charting thing is all about.If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe to the podcast, leave a review wherever you find your podcasts, and tell a friend.Until next time, God bless you!

Justin starts off chatting about the Vocal Course of Estelle Liebling, a famous teacher from the Garcia school who trained Beverly Sills and other great singers. Then Brian and Justin take on a deeper conversation on the usage of vocalise collections - specifically Marchesi, Panofka, and Concone. What are the benefits and snares of vocalise collections in the voice studio? Texts discussed are Panofka's ABC, which sets the stage for more musical vocalises, Concone's 30 Daily Exercises, Panofka's Progressive Vocalises, Panofka's 24 Vocalises, Rossini's Gorgheggi e Solfeggi, Eduardo Marzo's The Art of Vocalization, and Elio Battaglia's latest volumes published by Ricordi. Brian discusses the 8-bar vocalises of Sieber. These vocalise collections can answer many questions that will show up in your classical vocal scores. Additionally, Ken Bozeman's explorations on acoustics can be applied to these vocalises to explore changes on certain vowels. Their value also rests as a kind of repertoire that is free from the pressure to ‘'perform”, so they don't carry negative emotional and vocal baggage as repertoire is wont to do. Consider vocalise books as recipe books, to be explored and discovered, not to be sung in sequential order. 

“There are no shortcuts to any place worth going” -Beverly Sills. Affirmations: 1) I have gratitude for how far I've come 2) My patience provides me practice for what I'm about to receive 3) I have faith the path I land on is the one meant just for me

Kathleen Kalb, author of A FATAL FINALE, introduces swashbuckling Gilded Age opera singer Ella Shane, best described as part Beverly Sills, part Anne of Green Gables, and part Errol Flynn, as the first book in her new historical mystery series. Are we wired for happiness? With civil unrest combined with the pandemic, loss of jobs, travel freezes, and an uncertain future, it may be challenging to see the rainbow at the end of the storm. Research indicates that happiness is wired in our genes and we may need that joy now. Grow a diversity of plants, eliminate pesticides, herbicides, and insecticides to attract beneficial insects, birds, spiders, reptiles, and numerous other guardians of our garden galaxy. Goddess Gardener, Cynthia Brian provides info on the basic needs for food, habitat, water, and shelter, so that you will enjoy increased outdoor amusement while learning an appreciation of nature.

A complete 1972 performance finds Beverly Sills facing off against Pauline Tinsley.

This week's episode of the Phenomenal 50 features a very special performance of Franz Schubert's Der Hirt auf dem Felsen [The Shepherd on the Rock] with soprano Beverly Sills, clarinetist Gervaise de Peyer, and pianist Charles Wadsworth.

To mark Beverly Sills's 90th birthday: the late diva's acclaimed Massenet heroine opposite her ideal Des Grieux, Alain Vanzo.

The buzz: “For last year's words belong to last year's language And next year's words await another voice” (T.S. Eliot). 2017 brings the opportunity to start with a clean slate, despite your mistakes last year. It's also a time to pull on your “big girl (and boy) pants” and face the ugly issues you swept under the rug last year…and in years before. We invite small business owners to bravely look in the dark corners you'd prefer to avoid. Why? By shining the light, you'll build a stronger, more prosperous business in 2017! The experts speak. Nina Kaufman, Esq.: “There are no shortcuts to anyplace worth going” (Beverly Sills). Nance L. Schick, Esq.: “A quiet conscience makes one strong (Anne Frank). Renée L. Duff, Esq.: “The secret of getting started is breaking your complex, overwhelming tasks into small, manageable tasks...then starting on that first one” (Mark Twain). Join us for Legal Lessons for Women Business Owners - Part 5: How to Clear Your Legal Clutter for the New Year.

The buzz: “For last year's words belong to last year's language And next year's words await another voice” (T.S. Eliot). 2017 brings the opportunity to start with a clean slate, despite your mistakes last year. It's also a time to pull on your “big girl (and boy) pants” and face the ugly issues you swept under the rug last year…and in years before. We invite small business owners to bravely look in the dark corners you'd prefer to avoid. Why? By shining the light, you'll build a stronger, more prosperous business in 2017! The experts speak. Nina Kaufman, Esq.: “There are no shortcuts to anyplace worth going” (Beverly Sills). Nance L. Schick, Esq.: “A quiet conscience makes one strong (Anne Frank). Renée L. Duff, Esq.: “The secret of getting started is breaking your complex, overwhelming tasks into small, manageable tasks...then starting on that first one” (Mark Twain). Join us for Legal Lessons for Women Business Owners - Part 5: How to Clear Your Legal Clutter for the New Year.

In 2012, the New York City Opera -- what Mayor LaGuardia called "the People's Opera" -- declared bankruptcy. This is/was the opera that introduced Americans to Placido Domingo and Beverly Sills. Make what you will of the fact that the bankruptcy announcement coincided with the presentation of a new opera about Anna Nicole Smith.This is either a problem very specific to the New York Opera, or part of a virus that has been taking down opera companies all over the U.S. and maybe all over the world. In Italy, where opera receives much more public and government support, one fourth of all major opera companies were in a version of bankruptcy as of 2008.Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Last fall, the New York City Opera -- what Mayor LaGuardia called "the People's Opera" -- declared bankruptcy. This is/was the opera that introduced Americans to Placido Domingo and Beverly Sills. Make what you will of the fact that the bankruptcy announcement coincided with the presentation of a new opera about Anna Nicole Smith.This is either a problem very specific to the New York Opera, or part of a virus that has been taking down opera companies all over the U.S. and maybe all over the world. In Italy, where opera receives much more public and government support, one fourth of all major opera companies were in a version of bankruptcy as of 2008.Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Last month, the New York City Opera-- what Mayor LaGuardia called "the People's Opera" -- declared bankruptcy. This is/was the opera that introduced Americans to Placido Domingo and Beverly Sills. Make what you will of the fact that the bankruptcy announcement coincided with the presentation of a new opera about Anna Nicole Smith.Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.