That journey began when I was 14 years old and living in Cooperstown. I never could have imagined I would end up on the stages of New York City’s Metropolitan Opera and London’s Royal Albert Hall, singing duets with Luciano Pavarotti. At that time, I was just a kid playing in the high-school band, and I heard about something called “Glimmerglass.”…
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OPERA—7 p.m. “Talking Opera.” Director Chia Patino discusses the world premier of “The House on Mango Street.” Presented by The Glimmerglass Festival at the First Baptist Church, 21 Elm Street, Cooperstown. guild.of.glimmerglass.festival@gmail.com or https://www.glimmerglassguild.org/events…
Dolores was elected the first woman and first Black to the boards of three corporations: Phillips Petroleum, the multinational food company Kellogg’s—where she initiated and chaired both companies’ first social responsibility committees—and the media company Gannett. She also served on the boards of both Michigan Bell Telephone and New York Telephone, the Michigan Council on the Arts under Gov. William Milliken, and was appointed by President Gerald Ford as a founding member to the National Council on the Arts. In…
Henry “Hank” Phillips of Cooperstown died peacefully Saturday, August 31, 2024. The only child of Henry J. and Laura M. Phillips (née Tierney), Hank was born December 12, 1934 in Pittston, Pennsylvania and raised in Amsterdam, New York. Upon graduating high school, Hank attended the Albany College of Pharmacy, receiving his degree in 1957.…
Christine Grieg McNaughton, 78, passed away on July 20, 2024 at Bassett Hospital in Cooperstown. A native of Niskayuna, New York, she graduated from Niskayuna High School and from the College of Saint Rose in Albany, and subsequently taught art in Albany public schools.…
Within a week this February, two friends, whose professional contributions to the Glimmerglass Festival helped propel the opera company forward during an era of significant growth, passed away on opposite coasts, both as a result of Parkinson’s disease.…
PIERSTOWN—Michael Willis, 81, for many years a senior executive in the book publishing business in Manhattan and more recently the director of Press and Public Relations at Glimmerglass Opera, died Friday, February 16, 2024 at his home in Pierstown. He is survived by his husband, Bill Oliver. Arrangements are with Tillapaugh Funeral Service, Cooperstown.…
Last week, on the evening of Friday the 7th of July, the Glimmerglass Festival opened the doors of the Alice Busch Opera Theater for its 48th season with a provocative, moving, and beautifully sung and brilliantly acted performance of Puccini’s “La bohème.” This is the fifth Glimmerglass production of what is among the most well-known and well-loved operas in the world.…
In Memoriam Jeanne S. B. Viek, 93 March 22, 1928 – January 22, 2022 COOPERSTOWN – Jeanne “Jeje” Stone Barrett Viek, 93, passed away peacefully at her daughter’s home in Cooperstown on January 22, 2022. She was born on March 22, 1928 in Bryn Mawr, PA, the daughter of Albert Oliver and Lisbeth Beatrice (Stone) Barrett. She grew up in Devon, PA. Most weekends the family went to their farm on the eastern shore of Chesapeake Bay, Maryland. Jeje attended…
In Memoriam Mary M. McGowan, 85 August 13, 1936 – July 2, 2022. COOPERSTOWN – Mary Martha McGowan passed away on July 2, 2022, surviving her beloved husband Victor Salvatore, Jr by 18 months. Universally known as Martha, she was born August 13, 1936 in St. Paul, Minnesota. After attending the College of New Rochelle and graduating with an art degree from the University of Minnesota, she moved first to Chicago and then to New York City in 1966. In…
