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Classical music: Metropolitan Opera radio host Margaret Juntwait is dead at 58.
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ALERT: This month’s “Sunday Afternoon Live From the Chazen” concert will take place tomorrow at 12:30 p.m. in Brittingham Gallery III.
The concert features local violinist Kangwon Kim, violist Micah Behr and cellist Mark Bridges. The program includes a suite for solo viola by Quincy Porter and an arrangement of Johann Sebastian Bach’s famous “Goldberg” Variations for string trio done by Russian violist Dmitry Sitkovetsky.
Admission is FREE. Since Wisconsin Public Radio ended live broadcasts of the concert after 36 years, you can stream it live starting at 12:30. Just go to the Chazen Museum of Art’s website where you will find the necessary link:
By Jacob Stockinger
Her expressive voice became as identifiable with the opera -– with the Metropolitan Opera -– as have some of the world’s great singers.
Her name is Margaret Juntwait (below in a photo by Jonathan Tichler) and she hosted the live radio broadcast from the Met that started in December and ran through May. Every Saturday, she reached more than one million fans worldwide with her commentaries and her outstanding interviews with singers and conductors.
This past Wednesday, Margaret Juntwait died at 58 of complications from ovarian cancer, which she had battled with for a decade.
Because today is Saturday, it seems like the perfect day for The Ear to post about her passing.
Here are three stories about Margaret Juntwait and her career plus a very short YouTube video about Puccini’s “La Boheme” that shows her quick wit.
From the Deceptive Cadence blog on National Public Radio (NPR):
From the Metropolitan Opera:
http://metopera.org/metopera/news/features/news-flash/remembering-margaret-juntwait
From the famed radio station in New York City, WQXR and WNYC:
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