(b Detroit, March 18, 1929; d Stamford, CT, May 7, 2020). American bass. He served in the US Air Force before studying with Avery Crew and Boris Goldovsky. After appearances in New Orleans and Santa Fe, he joined the New York City Opera in 1959 and moved to the Metropolitan Opera in ...
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Macurdy, John
Martin Bernheimer
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Maiden, Cullen
Frankie Perry
(b Cleveland, OH, May 10, 1932; d London, Aug 5, 2011). American bass. Following teenage success as a regional and national prize-winner on Ted Mack’s Original Amateur Hour talent show, he graduated from Ohio Wesleyan University in 1956 with the bachelor’s degree in Music, and commenced classes at the Juilliard School before entering military service. During his time in the Entertainment Forces of the Army in Korea (1956–8), Maiden performed concerts of Lieder, arias, spirituals, and Korean songs for troops and local audiences, and sang with the Seoul Symphony Orchestra under John S. Kim. After undertaking further classes at Juilliard in 1958, including with Sergius Kagen, Maiden was a vocal soloist in the 1959–60 tour of the Katherine Dunham Dance Company, and the following year toured the United States with the Harry Belafonte Folk Singers. In Stockholm, 1962, he sang for the six-month run of Lia Schubert’s ...
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Vedernikov, Alexander
David Cummings
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(b Mokino, nr Kirov, Dec 23, 1927; d Moscow, Jan 9, 2018). Soviet bass. After study in Moscow and Milan he made his début at the Bol’shoy in 1957, as Ivan Susanin in Glinka’s A Life for the Tsar. He sang in Moscow, Leningrad, Kiev, and Tbilisi, most notably as Dosifey (...
