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Remembering Maureen Forrester: Today's Links, July 26
By Cecily CarverPosted in Daily LinksMany opera-lovers gathered at the Stratford Summer Music festival yesterday to pay tribute to the beloved Canadian contralto Maureen Forrester, who in the video above sings Urlicht, the fourth movement of Mahler's Symphony No. 2 ("Resurrection"). The Toronto Star describes the moving tribute in detail, and the author's blog Sound Mind reprints a heartfelt tribute to Forrester by Colin Firth.
The big COC news yesterday was the announcement that Rufus Wainwright will be headlining our fall fundraising bash, Operanation 8: A Muse Ball.
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The Toronto Sun included a lovely picture of Rufus Wainwright.
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The blog Fashionights was excited about the news: "The event of the fall season is back and this time; I do not plan to miss it!"
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