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Category: Beverly Sills

Happy Birthday Sherrill Milnes

January 10, 2019January 5, 2019 Baritones, Beverly Sills, CULTURE, Met, Music, Opera, OPERA, Sherrill Milnes
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A birthday recital from the greatest voice this nation has ever produced, and the greatest baritone in the history of opera.

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Sunday Morning Opera: A Recital for My Birthday

December 2, 2018November 30, 2018 Baritones, Beverly Sills, CULTURE, Luciano Pavarotti, Met, Music, Opera, OPERA, PERSONAL, Placido Domingo, Sherrill Milnes, Thomas Hampson
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Today is my birthday.  I’ve decided to have a recital of my favorites. One of the fun things about opera is the possibility of

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Sunday Morning Opera: A Smackdown

November 25, 2018November 24, 2018 Beverly Sills, CULTURE, Music, Opera, OPERA
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Don’t Be a Janis

October 22, 2018October 21, 2018 Baritones, Beverly Sills, CRIME, CULTURE, Leontyne Price, Luciano Pavarotti, MAIN PAGE, Met, Music, Opera, OPERA, Placido Domingo, Richard Tucker, Robert Merrill, Sherrill Milnes
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I think I angered someone on Facebook when I did not react as I should to a photo of an obviously stoned Janis Joplin. 

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Sunday Morning Opera: Stormy Weather

September 16, 2018September 15, 2018 Baritones, Beverly Sills, CULTURE, Luciano Pavarotti, Met, Music, Opera, OPERA, Placido Domingo, Sherrill Milnes
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My personal favorite:

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Sunday Morning Opera: Crazy Relatives

August 12, 2018August 11, 2018 Baritones, Beverly Sills, CULTURE, Joseph Calleja, Luciano Pavarotti, MAIN PAGE, Met, Music, Opera, OPERA
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Beverly Sills (Lucia) Patricia Kern (Alisa) Carlo Bergonzi (Edgardo) Piero Cappuccilli (Enrico) Justino Diaz (Raimondo) Adolf Dallapozza (Arturo) Joan Sutherland (Lucia) Luciano Pavarotti (Edgardo)

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Sherrill Milnes & Beverly Sills

June 17, 2018June 14, 2018 Baritones, Beverly Sills, CULTURE, Met, Music, Opera, OPERA, Sherrill Milnes
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Everyone who knows me knows that I have a fairly strict baritones only, philosophy in life.  Once in awhile a tenor might be needed

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Sunday Morning Opera: Bubbles

June 3, 2018June 2, 2018 Baritones, Beverly Sills, CULTURE, MAIN PAGE, Met, New McCarthyism, Opera, OPERA, Sherrill Milnes
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I’m a week late.

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Sunday Morning Opera: A Wedding & A Funeral

May 20, 2018May 19, 2018 Baritones, Beverly Sills, CULTURE, Joseph Calleja, Luciano Pavarotti, Met, Music, Opera, OPERA, Sherrill Milnes
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In time for the Royal Wedding, there are weddings in opera.  Very few have happy endings, obviously. There are many marriages in opera. Instead

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Sunday Morning Opera: The Ides of March

March 11, 2018March 10, 2018 Beverly Sills, CULTURE, Met, Music, Opera, OPERA
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The Ides of March will be on Thursday, this year. On the corresponding date, in 44 BC, saw the death of Julius Caesar, and

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Sunday Morning Opera: Let’s Bubble!

February 25, 2018February 24, 2018 Beverly Sills, CULTURE, Music, Opera, OPERA
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What may be her greatest performance:

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Sunday Morning Opera: Thais Smackdown

January 21, 2018January 20, 2018 Baritones, Beverly Sills, CULTURE, Met, Music, Opera, OPERA, Sherrill Milnes, Thomas Hampson
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And…finally…

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Sunday Morning Opera:

December 17, 2017December 15, 2017 Baritones, Beverly Sills, CULTURE, Music, Opera, OPERA, Sherrill Milnes
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I’m still hurting.  The only way I know to handle it is by dealing with the greatest of them all.

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Sunday Morning Opera: Giving Thanks

November 19, 2017November 18, 2017 Baritones, Beverly Sills, CULTURE, Leontyne Price, MAIN PAGE, Music, Opera, OPERA, Sherrill Milnes, Thomas Hampson
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Music to celebrate our country, on our unique holiday week. All voices and composers are American.

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Sunday Morning Opera: Celebrating Opera

November 5, 2017November 4, 2017 Baritones, Beverly Sills, Bryn Terfel, CULTURE, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Leontyne Price, MAIN PAGE, Met, Music, Opera, OPERA, Sherrill Milnes, Thomas Hampson
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This week saw the celebration of opera as a genera, an art form, and way of life.  There are those who consider it the

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Sunday Morning Opera: Baritones and Stress

October 29, 2017 Barihunks, Baritones, Beverly Sills, Bryn Terfel, CULTURE, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, MAIN PAGE, Music, Opera, OPERA, Sherrill Milnes, Simon Keenlyside, Thomas Hampson
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You may have noticed I’ve been on autopilot the past week or so.  There are reasons.  Things were so iffy last night I was

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Sunday Morning Opera: Tomorrow!

September 24, 2017September 22, 2017 Baritones, Beverly Sills, CULTURE, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Leontyne Price, MAIN PAGE, Met, Music, Opera, OPERA, Sherrill Milnes
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Tomorrow is the day we’ve been waiting for since early May.  In just a few hours the amazing chandeliers will begin their journey upward,

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Sunday Morning Opera: American Songs

September 10, 2017August 30, 2017 Baritones, Beverly Sills, CULTURE, Leontyne Price, MAIN PAGE, Music, Opera, OPERA, Sherrill Milnes, Thomas Hampson
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Sunday Morning Opera – Total Eclipse of the Sun

August 20, 2017August 20, 2017 Beverly Sills, CULTURE, Music, Opera, OPERA
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It is amazing how you can locate thematic music from opera.  I was trying to find something about the sun, specifically baritone.  Instead, I

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Sunday Morning Opera: Wisdom, Faith, Sex & Violence

July 9, 2017July 8, 2017 Baritones, Beverly Sills, CULTURE, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, FAITH, Faith, Leontyne Price, MAIN PAGE, Met, Music, Opera, OPERA, Sherrill Milnes
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Right about now you might be wondering how I’m going to blend my Proverbs Challenge (day 3) with Sunday Morning Opera.  You think that’s

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Sunday Morning Opera: My Met Top 50

May 21, 2017May 20, 2017 Barihunks, Baritones, Beverly Sills, CULTURE, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Erwin Schrott, Leontyne Price, MAIN PAGE, Met, Music, Opera, OPERA, Sherrill Milnes, Simon Keenlyside, Thomas Hampson
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We opera fans are a strange bunch of fanatical and very insane individuals.  We’re as bad as baseball fanatics.  Quite often we are one

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Sunday Morning Opera: “New” Met @ 50!

May 7, 2017May 6, 2017 Barihunks, Baritones, Beverly Sills, CULTURE, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Leontyne Price, MAIN PAGE, Met, Music, Opera, OPERA, PERSONAL, Sherrill Milnes 1
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This evening the Metropolitan Opera will celebrate 50 years at Lincoln Center.  When it opened, the NY Times gushed: “…On September 16, 1966, the

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Sunday Morning Opera: Will She or Won’t She?

April 9, 2017April 8, 2017 Beverly Sills, CULTURE, Met, Music, Opera, OPERA 2
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Last week, the operatic world was shocked to hear that the greatest soprano of a generation – today’s Beverly Sills, Renée Fleming was retiring

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Sunday Morning Opera: Happy Birthday Leontyne Price

February 12, 2017February 11, 2017 Beverly Sills, Bigotry, Cultural Illiteracy, CULTURE, Historial Ignorance, Leontyne Price, MAIN PAGE, Met, Music, Opera, OPERA
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The Diva in a Turban turned ninety this week! There is no argument that she is one of the greatest voices this country has

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Sunday Morning Opera: Celebrating the Greatest – Ever

January 9, 2017January 11, 2017 Art, Barihunks, Baritones, Beverly Sills, Classic Hollywood, Cultural Illiteracy, CULTURE, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Hank Aaron, Historial Ignorance, HISTORY, MAIN PAGE, Met, Music, Opera, OPERA, PERSONAL, Sherrill Milnes
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Beginning at midnight on January 10, I’ll be tweeting 24 hours of music honoring the greatest baritone there ever was. There is a classic

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Sunday Morning Opera: The Greatest – Ever!

January 8, 2017January 7, 2017 Barihunks, Baritones, Beverly Sills, CULTURE, Met, Music, Opera, OPERA, Sherrill Milnes
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Tomorrow is the birthday of the greatest baritone of them all, the one who put the hunk in the word baritone and the rest

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Sunday Morning Opera: Cheesy Songs & Baritones

November 20, 2016November 19, 2016 Baritones, Beverly Sills, CULTURE, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, MAIN PAGE, Music, Opera, OPERA, Sherrill Milnes, Simon Keenlyside, Thomas Hampson
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The best baritone crooning is cheesy. I doesn’t matter who the baritone is, it just needs to be a little cheesy. (I’ve added 1

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Sunday Morning Opera: National Opera Week

October 30, 2016October 29, 2016 Barihunks, Baritones, Beverly Sills, CULTURE, Leontyne Price, MAIN PAGE, Met, Music, Opera, OPERA, Sherrill Milnes, Thomas Hampson
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Two things are going on this week. First, it is National Opera Week. Secondly, today is annual Richard Tucker Foundation Gala. The more I

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Sunday Morning Opera: The New Met at 50

September 18, 2016September 17, 2016 Baritones, Beverly Sills, CULTURE, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Leontyne Price, MAIN PAGE, Met, Music, Opera, OPERA, Sherrill Milnes
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This is one of those wonderful, self-indulgent posts that can be about anything.  I’m loving it.  I suspect I’ll just meander around Lincoln Center

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Sunday Morning Opera: The Greatest Soprano There Ever Was

May 29, 2016May 25, 2016 Beverly Sills, Met, Opera, OPERA, Sherrill Milnes
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Wednesday would have been Beverly Sills 87th birthday.  When it comes to Bubbles, where do you begin?  I’ll start with my favorite and end

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

screen-shot-2016-10-29-at-10-50-47-pm SJ Reidhead (aka The Pink Flamingo) is a writer based in New Mexico. The author of two published novels, both westerns: Dust Devil and The Second Mrs. Earp and two published works of non-fictions: TRAVESTY: Frank Waters Earp Agenda Exposed and A Church for Helldorado, Endicott Peabody's 1882 Tombstone Diary. One of the leading authorities on the life of Wyatt Earp and Tombstone during the Earp years, she is writing a series of murder mysteries set in modern day Tombstone. The author is also working on a book about fashion in the Wild West. When complete, there will be over 2100 unpublished antique photographs dating from 1855-1910.

The author's work has appeared in Wild West, True West, Blogcritics, and The Tombstone Times. Recently the author has had to deal with a father who succumbed to Alzheimer's Disease. This is leading to a book dealing with the frustrations of dealing with the frustrations of the disease, finance, legal, health-care, and things no one bothers telling families about it. A portion of the book will contain entries from a blog she kept, detailing the struggle with her father's AD. She is also working on a murder mystery series set in modern day Tombstone and Cochise County. Several books of essays on Christian living are currently in edits. A book of essays and revisions of articles about Wyatt Earp has been completed and will include her latest work detailing her theory about the murder of his second wife, Mattie.

SJ Reidhead has been involved in Republican politics since she was 'a little kid'. During the Reagan years she was a lobbyist working with various non-profit organizations who were attempting to salvage NASA and the American space program after the disastrous Carter years. In spite of ups and downs, and numerous disappointments, politically, it is obvious the only political hope for this country is via the Republican Party. Along with politics she is an opera fanatic, has been known to stalk baritones to the point of being a baritone junkie, and loves baseball.

The Pink Flamingo went on line on October 4, 2005.

THE PINK FLAMINGO STORY

It started out as a joke. During the seven years I worked with the girls of my parish, leading a youth group, one of the things that I stressed were manners. Part of having manners, the way I see it, is to know how to set a proper table, host a party, cater it, and clean up afterward. I was fortunate enough to have a group of very talented girls in my youth group. They learned how to plan for, and execute large church functions, very properly. During one such function I noticed there were several incredibly tacky pink flamingos sitting on the table. Knowing the girls were up to something, I said nothing. A few months later they did the same thing at a function I was hosting at my home. I said nothing. They had a birthday party for me. More pink flamingos appeared - and a joke was born.

Thanks to the girls, all of whom are now grown, I have a collection of pink flamingos. It has become an ongoing joke. When I began working on my political blog, I realized the only possibly title was The Pink Flamingo!

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