Previous posts for June 15th are found here: Edvard Grieg (2019), David Rose (2020), Edvard Grieg; Janet Lennon (2021), and Robert Russell Bennett (2022)
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Ernestine Schumann-Heink (15 June 1861 – 17 November 1936) was a Bohemian-born Austrian-American dramatic contralto.
Don't Look Now
Music critic George Bernard Shaw was captivated by Schumann-Heink's fine
contralto voice, and the power and passion of her delivery at the
Bayreuth Festival of 1896, but was less taken by the summer gown and
fashionable sleeves she was wearing under her black-blue Valkyrie armor
as Waltraute in Gotterdammerung.
-- Richard W. Amero, "Madame Schumann-Heink: A Legend in Her Time" http://www.balboaparkhistory.net
When Ernestine Schumann-Heink acted
Her name on the placard attracted
A crowd which rejoiced
At the sound of her voice,
Though the way she was costumed distracted.
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Charles Wood (15 June 1866 – 12 July 1926) was an Irish composer and teacher.
Special Audience
If you’re in a High Church choir,
Wood wrote stuff you might admire,
Just the sort of thing you’d crave
To echo down the Gothic nave.
No one else would wish we could
Revive the works of Charles Wood.
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