Some Singers Want The Audience To Love

Am I Afraid Of High Notes? Of Course I Am Afraid. What Sane Man Is Not?

Learning Music By Reading About It Is Like Making Love By Mail.

You Never Know What Little Bundle Of Encouragements Artists Carry Around With Them, What Little Pats On The Back From What Hands, What Newspaper Clipping, What Word Of Hope From What Teacher. I Suppose The So-called Faith In Ourselves Is The Foundation Of Our Talent, But I Am Sure These Encouragements Are The Mortar That Holds It Together.

As An Art Form, Opera Is A Rare And Remarkable Creation. For Me, It Expresses Aspects Of The Human Drama That Cannot Be Expressed In Any Other Way, Or Certainly Not As Beautifully.

I Was An Elementary School Teacher.