Bubbles

[thedarkages]

I can't believe that no one cares that Beverly Sills is dead. She was one of the great coloratura sopranos in history. She was a brilliant arts administrator, and used her wiles to further many important musical causes. Compared to Joan Sutherland and her lantern jaw, she was a beauty. Her wit and intelligence came out in many contexts, but especially during the interviews she conducted for PBS's classical music programming.

And she was one of "ours," like Jan Peerce and Richard Tucker.

RIP, Bubbles. Your mad scenes were worth the price of admission.

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[mrbalihai.livejournal.com]

Her death was all over the news yesterday, so I don't think it's fair to say that no one cares.

[thedarkages]

Technorati gives 1,500 hits for Ms. Sills, of which at least 500 are garbage (unrelated topics), and roughly 500 more are news accounts. So, that means that 500 bloggers gave her passing any attention, which, out of the whole blogosphere, is pretty lame.

On the classical music station here, KUSC, the evening host played one aria by her, and then went on as if nothing had happened.

I don't expect the nation to be sunk into Kennedy-style mourning, but Beverly Sills was an infinitely more interesting and valuable human being than Paris Hilton is today. Sills deserves better.

[mrbalihai.livejournal.com]

I'm not too surprised that her death didn't make a bigger splash in the blogosphere, since it tends to be mostly obsessed with pop culture, but I am a bit shocked that your classical music station gave her such short shrift.

[thedarkages]

Well, I donned my asbestos dinner jacket and gave the station manager a piece of my mind. She probably won't read her email this week, but it will make her sit up when she does. I'm hoping that one of the other hosts will do the right thing and devote the better part of a day to her.