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Banker Henry Lee Higginson established Boston’s initial full-time citizen orchestra. An unparalleled one-million-dollar give endowed the Boston Symphony Orchestra, which, since its debut on Oct 22, 1881, has generated itself among the great orchestras from the world. To be able to provide orchestra members summer time employment, also to recapture …

Canada’s most well-known contralto, Maureen Forrester, began her vocal research with Sally Martin in Montreal and later on studied with Frank Rowe and Bernard Diamant. Her initial professional appearance emerged in a recital at Montreal in 1953, and she started a musical cooperation with pianist John Newmark which lasted until …