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Category Archives: Women In Music
RIP – The Singing Nun
Day 326 of Colourisation Project – March 29 Challenge: to publish daily a colourised photo that has some significance around the day of publication. When police officers found the lifeless bodies of 52-year-old Jeanine Deckers and her lover, Annie Pecher … Continue reading
Forever Young ~ Patsy Cline
Day 302 of Colourisation Project – March 5 Challenge: to publish daily a colourised photo that has some significance around the day of publication. On this day, March 5, 1963 the world was robbed of one of the greatest musical … Continue reading
Kathryn Grayson – Hollywood Soprano
Day 286 of Colourisation Project – February 17 Challenge: to publish daily a colourised photo that has some significance around the day of publication. Born Zelma Kathryn Elisabeth Hedrick in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, she was better known as MGM musical star, … Continue reading
Posted in Colorization, Colourisation, Film, Hollywood, Music, Opera, Photography, USA, Women, Women in Film & TV, Women In Music
Tagged (1950), Anchors Aweigh, Anchors Aweigh (1945), Frank Sinatra, Gene Kelly, Hollywood Walk of Fame, Howard Keel, Kathryn Grayson, Kiss Me Kate (1953), La Boheme, La Traviata, Loredana Crupi, Madama Butterfly, Mario Lanza, Opus Loredana, Orpheus in the Underworld, Show Boat (1951), The Toast of New Orleans
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Lina Cavalieri – Venus on Earth
Day 232 of Colourisation Project – December 25 Challenge: to publish daily a colourised photo that has some significance around the day of publication. Italian writer and poet, Gabriele D’Annunzio, called her “the personification of Venus on earth” and wrote that … Continue reading
Maria Callas – La Divina
Day 209 of Colourisation Project – December 2 Challenge: to publish daily a colourised photo that has some significance around the day of publication. New York City-born Greek soprano, Maria Callas, one of the most renowned and influential opera singers … Continue reading
Posted in Colorization, Colourisation, Music, Opera, Photography, Women, Women In Music
Tagged Dario Soria, La Divina, Loredana Crupi, Maria Callas, Metropolitan Opera Guild, Opus Loredana
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Jane Froman – The Day The Music Nearly Died
Day 187 of Colourisation Project – November 10 Challenge: to publish daily a colourised photo that has some significance around the day of publication. Big Band leader, Glenn Miller did it in 1944; singers, Buddy Holly, J. P. “The Big … Continue reading
Amy Beach – Remarkable Musician Rediscovered
Day 121 of Colourisation Project – September 5 Challenge: to publish daily a colourised photo that has some significance around the day of publication. In an era when women’s opportunities were restricted by a culture that saw them only as dutiful … Continue reading
Posted in Colorization, Colourisation, Music, Photography, Women, Women In Music
Tagged Amy Beach, Amy Marcy Cheney, Amy Marcy Cheney Beach, Beach: Berceuse for Cello & Piano, Beach: Mass in E flat Major, Beach: Piano Concerto in C-Sharp Minor, Beach: Romance for Violin and Piano, Beach: Symphony in E Minor, Edward MacDowell, Loredana Crupi, MacDowell Colony, Marian MacDowell, Women's Building at Chicago's Columbian Exposition of 1892
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