Divamensch

I love that my brother Howard alerts me to the deaths of people of whom I've not heard. See how deftly I avoided ending that sentence with a preposition? Nedra Talley Ross was a founding member and the last surviving member of The Ronettes. Ronnie Spector got all the press for that group and as lead singer I guess that makes sense but there were two other girls in the group! They might not have had as distinctive a voice as Spector, they might not have had the drive and the c

Jere, Dale, and I heard Barbara Hannigan with the New York Philharmonic on consecutive evenings in late April 2026. They heard the concert on Friday April 24, 2026 - - they texted me as they were leaving and said I absolutely had to buy a ticket for the next night. This is what Jere said in his text: “OMG. We just came out of the NY Phil with Barbara Hannigan singing the Poulenc La Voix Humaine. You must get a ticket for tomorrow night. Unbelievable. Run don’t walk. We both t