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>marika wrote in message ...
>>i am in dc this week for biz. i am killin time waiting for the
restaurants
>>to open
>>the creator of barbie died ...interesting correlation
>>as to what we are talking about
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>>mk5000
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>>http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/business/briefs/s_519245.ht
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>>American opera singer Teresa Stich-Randall dies at 79
>>email this
>>The Associated Press
>>July 25, 2007
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>>VIENNA, Austria -- American opera singer Teresa Stich-Randall, a soprano
>>praised by Arturo Toscanini as "the find of the century," has died,
>>Austria's Bundestheater said Tuesday. She was 79.
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>>Stich-Randall died July 17 in Vienna, where she had spent most of her
>>professional career, the national theater said in a statement. No cause
of
>>death was given.
>>
>>Acclaimed for her interpretations of Mozart's greatest works,
Stich-Randall
>>shuttled between the United States and Europe, singing in the world's
>>greatest opera houses.
>>
>>She was a regular at the Salzburg Festival and the Vienna State Opera,
>where
>>she performed on 355 separate occasions before retiring in 1972.
>>
>>A native of New Hartford, Connecticut, Stich-Randall studied at the
Hartt
>>School of Music in West Hartford.
>>
>>She performed as a teenager in Hartford at the Bushnell Center for the
>>Performing Arts, and made her debut at the Metropolitan Opera in 1961 in
>>"Cosi Fan Tutte" by Mozart.
>>
>>She was hired at 19 for several concerts with the NBC Symphony of the
Air
>by
>>Toscanini. She learned German, French and Italian, and in 1963, she
became
>>the first American to be named a Kammersangerin, or chamber singer _ an
>>honor for Austria's most respected artists.
>>
>>"I was lucky," Stich-Randall said in a 1983 interview. "Fate smiled on
me
>in
>>so many ways."
>>
>>Information on survivors was not immediately available. A memorial
service
>>was expected to be held next month.
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