The Memoirs of Sylvia Olden Lee, Premier African-American Classical Vocal Coach
Subtitle: Who Is Sylvia (Studies in the History and Interpretation of Music, V. 69.)
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
Published: March 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 205
ISBN-13: 9780773476219
Subjects: Biography: film, television & music; Black studies; Composition & orchestration; Vocal Music; Music; Biography / Autobiography; Biography/Autobiography; USA; General; Instruction & Study - Voice; 1917-; African American vocal coaches; Biography; Lee, Sylvia Olden,; United States; Vocal coaches
Description: "This is the only autobiography of America's first internationally renowned African-American classical vocal coach for concert, oratorio, and opera as well as a distinguished arranger and interpretive authority on Negro Spirituals. Mrs. Lee has been a pioneer in the musical field as the first African-American hired onto the staffs of the Metropolitan Opera and the Curtis Institute of Music.

She worked with world-acclaimed singers Elisabeth Schumann, Paul Robeson, Dorothy Maynor, Lawrence Winters, Mattiwilda Dobbs, Jessye Norman, and Kathleen Battle. Her appearance on PBS TV with Kathleen Battle and Wynton Marsalis was a fascinating critical interaction between artists and teacher. She has been honored by the United Nations and the National Women's Hall of Fame."--BOOK JACKET.