Helen Boatwright
13 years 5 months ago #1
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Nor but in sleep findeth a cure for care.
Incertainty that once gave scope to dream
Of laughing enterprise and glory untold,
Is now a blackness that no stars redeem.
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Helen Boatwright, 94, American soprano, complications from a fall.
Helen Boatwright, who had a distinguished career as an oratorio and orchestral soloist, died Wednesday in the Iroquois Nursing Home near Jamesville. She had celebrated her 94th birthday Nov. 17.
Her health had deteriorated after she fell at her Fayetteville home in November, said Howard Leake Boatwright III (known as “Lea”), the oldest of three children of Helen and Howard Boatwright.
Boatwright, a soprano, was celebrated for singing the music of American composers, among them Charles Ives, as well as her husband.. In 1954, she became the first person to record the songs of Ives, in the album “24 Songs,” with pianist John Kirkpatrick (Overtone Records).
During her career, she worked with luminaries in the world of music, such as conductors Leopold Stokowski, Erich Leinsdorf, Seiji Ozawa and Zubin Mehta.
Besides her son Lea, of Fayetteville, her survivors include a daughter, Alice K. Boatwright, of Paris, and another son, David, of Northampton, Mass.
The family is still finalizing funeral arrangements.
Helen Boatwright, who had a distinguished career as an oratorio and orchestral soloist, died Wednesday in the Iroquois Nursing Home near Jamesville. She had celebrated her 94th birthday Nov. 17.
Her health had deteriorated after she fell at her Fayetteville home in November, said Howard Leake Boatwright III (known as “Lea”), the oldest of three children of Helen and Howard Boatwright.
Boatwright, a soprano, was celebrated for singing the music of American composers, among them Charles Ives, as well as her husband.. In 1954, she became the first person to record the songs of Ives, in the album “24 Songs,” with pianist John Kirkpatrick (Overtone Records).
During her career, she worked with luminaries in the world of music, such as conductors Leopold Stokowski, Erich Leinsdorf, Seiji Ozawa and Zubin Mehta.
Besides her son Lea, of Fayetteville, her survivors include a daughter, Alice K. Boatwright, of Paris, and another son, David, of Northampton, Mass.
The family is still finalizing funeral arrangements.
Nor but in sleep findeth a cure for care.
Incertainty that once gave scope to dream
Of laughing enterprise and glory untold,
Is now a blackness that no stars redeem.
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