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American opera singer (1930–2018)

Barry McDaniel (October 18, 1930 – June 18, 2018)^[1] was an American operaticbaritone who spent his career almost exclusively in Germany, including 37 years at the Deutsche Oper Berlin. He appeared internationally at major opera houses and festivals, and created roles in several new operas, including Henze's Der junge Lord, Nabokov's Love's Labour's Lost, and Reimann's Melusine. He was also a celebrated concert singer and recitalist, focused on German Lied and French mélodie. He was the first singer of Wilhelm Killmayer's song cycle Tre Canti di Leopardi. He recorded both operatic and concert repertory.

Career

McDaniel was born in Lyndon, Kansas, to musical parents who soon became aware of his talent. From the age of nine he took systematic lessons in singing, piano and percussion and enjoyed considerable local popularity as a boy soprano soloist in churches and private concerts. When his röst c

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Music for Youth was founded in 1970, with the first youth music event, which initially came to be 'Festival of the Music for Youth'. Instead of being a competition with 1st place, 2nd place, 3rd place, the festival was to instead give out 'outstanding performance awards' and 'highly commended awards' to young, talented musicians.

The first Music for Youth festival took place at The Lyceum on The Strand in July 1971, with 400 young people involved. TES created media around the event and gave the moment tremendous support, and the writer and broadcaster Derek Jewell created coverage around it.

As the first festival was such a success and had hundreds of young people involved, the 'Festival of the Music For Youth' moved to a bigger venue for its second year - the Fairfield Halls in Croydon.

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That left unsaid and at the centre of us, unspeakable silence. Turbulent thoughts but faltering words, a very specific form of silence, so I am listening to “Life, Life”, from Ryuichi Sakamoto’s async, his bargain, though not the final bargain, with death, David Sylvian reading from Arseny Tarkovsky, “wave follows wave to break on the shore, on each wave is a star, a person, a bird, dreams, reality, death, on wave after wave”, chords moving inexorably, blunted three notes up then down as if sleepwalking toward a slowly opening gate, and then the signature resolution of ghostly cloud trails and deep in long reverb those notes flowering into a piano theme played with characteristic certainty and sensitivity, and I find myself crying, unable to read the tiny print of the CD cover.

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