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Susan Larson

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in New Rochelle, New York, The United States
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In the course of my life I have been an opera star, an actress, a music teacher, a journalist, a novelist and an easel painter. While deciding what I will do next I live and tend the garden with my brilliant and beloved husband, in the leafy suburbs of Boston.

Of all the composers I sang, I have always loved Mozart best. Mozart opera roles I have sung include: Fiordiligi (Cosí Fan Tutte), Donna Elvira (Don Giovanni), Pamina (The Magic Flute) and Cherubino (The Marriage of Figaro).

I started singing his opera arias and songs in high school. I felt that I had found a musical mentor. I read his correspondence in college and fell in love with his high ideals, his low humor, his vitality, curiosity and love of humanity. I almost felt he was talki
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Poverty Bites

Poverty Bites
“The Poor,” as Jesus remarked a good while ago, “you will always have with you.”
As promised, The Poor have not gone away. Throughout history the more fortunate have dealt with them charitably, mercifully, or brutally as the mood takes us. In our success-crazed American society, being poor is kind of OK if you rise out of it condition. If you insist on remaining stuck in poverty, ther Read more of this blog post »
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Robert Olmstead
“Hast thou given the horse strength? Hast thou clothed his neck with thunder?...He swalloweth the ground with fierceness and rage...”
Robert Olmstead, Coal Black Horse

John Edgar Wideman
“All Stories are True.”
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Christopher Smart
“For he is an instrument for the children to learn benevolence upon.”
Christopher Smart, The Poetical Works of Christopher Smart: Volume I: Jubilate Agno

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