tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6758360225120003215.post1868540740910944309..comments2024-03-28T08:51:04.478-04:00Comments on Farmers Letters: Exhorting the Masses to Pursue Greater Sophistication...-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16745768408538827278noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6758360225120003215.post-29552773623818350182015-12-07T19:26:57.154-05:002015-12-07T19:26:57.154-05:00Needless to say Anna Russell will remain vividly a...Needless to say Anna Russell will remain vividly alive in the hearts of all who loved her as long as we can still think and remember.<br /><br />She has been a constant source of laughter, merriment –– and frank inspiration –– for me, since I first made her acquaintance in the mid-nineteen-fifties.<br /><br />A friend and i went to her at the Bucks County Playhouse c. 1962 in a musical productionFreeThinkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6758360225120003215.post-26781116874295744072015-12-07T19:16:39.077-05:002015-12-07T19:16:39.077-05:00We should also be aware:
Anna Russell, Deft Parod...We should also be aware:<br /><br /><b>Anna Russell, Deft Parodist of Operatic Culture, Dies at 94</b><br /><br />The New York Times October 20, 2006 <br /> <br />Anna Russell, the prima donna of operatic parody who claimed to have begun her career as “prima donna of the Ellis Island Opera Company,” who said she learned to play the French horn from an article in the Encyclopaedia Britannica, andFreeThinkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6758360225120003215.post-42030423419199976162015-12-06T19:59:07.738-05:002015-12-06T19:59:07.738-05:00I should thank you, again, for the introduction. ...I should thank you, again, for the introduction. She's an incredibally talented lady.-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16745768408538827278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6758360225120003215.post-5495313899047789152015-12-06T15:57:25.374-05:002015-12-06T15:57:25.374-05:00Always a great treat, Farmer! Thank you so much fo...Always a great treat, Farmer! Thank you so much for cheering up a gray, rather dismal Sunday afternoon.<br /><br />I saw La Russell perform this live only once –– at Carnegie Hall back in the Sixties. I had heard the original recording several times, of course, but had never actually <i>seen</i> my beloved Anna in person.<br /><br />I was way up in the top balcony –– the only seat I could afford FreeThinkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.com