This is a wonderful, loving piece of writing on so many levels. It starts as a reminisce of young Spellen's music instruction in the back side of Carnegie Hall, but broadens into a love letter to the music form she studied and some of the remarkable figures she worked with, including Aaron Copeland, Leonard Bernstein and tenor Chauncey Northern who is given his due for helping open up the opera field to African American performers.
This is a wonderful, loving piece of writing on so many levels. It starts as a reminisce of young Spellen's music instruction in the back side of Carnegie Hall, but broadens into a love letter to the music form she studied and some of the remarkable figures she worked with, including Aaron Copeland, Leonard Bernstein and tenor Chauncey Northern who is given his due for helping open up the opera field to African American performers.
Thanks, David.
Lovely story, thanks!