Divamensch

I said last week that it was the end of my Great Song, Wrong Title theme but I'm adding a little addendum. I was trying to decide how to explain the concept and it occurred to me that might work well to explain it by explaining the opposite - - songs that have the perfect title. The gold standard for this is The Eagles. You look at The Very Best of The Eagles and every damn song has the perfect title (I won't list them all, just the ones I love): "Take It Easy" "Witchy Woman"

My brother Patrick alerted me to the death of soprano Martina Arroyo (age 90). She made exactly 200 appearances at the Met, including three opening nights. She was a frequent guest on Carson's Tonight Show and received a Kennedy Center Honor in 2013. Her Times obit included a cute story about her Met debut - - she had won the Auditions on the Air and made her debut in the small role of The Celestial Voice in Verdi's Don Carlo. Her mother was at the performance and missed Mart