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A conversation with the internationally celebrated mezzo-soprano who has been called the most influential singer in American history, but who is so much more. Marilyn Horne has dominated the world of opera as one of the world's most popular performers for over four decades. Her international success in the most difficult of coloratura mezzo-soprano roles led to the revival of many of Rossini and Handel's greatest operas. The Grammy Award winner has sung many times at the White House and at the 1993 inauguration. The 2003-2004 season marks several milestones for her, including her 70th birthday on January 16, the 50th anniversary of her operatic debut at the age of 20, and the 10th anniversary of both the Marilyn Horne Foundation and her position as chair of the voice department at her alma mater, Music Academy of the West. Anthony Tommasini, the chief music critic of The New York Times, is an author and a pianist. Mr. Tommasini has taught music at Emerson College in Boston and nonfiction writing workshops at Wesleyan University and Brandeis University. In 1997, his interest in the work of the composer and critic Virgil Thomson culminated with the publication of Virgil Thomson: Composer on the Aisle, a book called "indispensable to anyone concerned with American cultural history of the period" by The New York Review of Books. As a journalist, he has also written about theater, dance, jazz, rap, books, and AIDS. This TimesTalk event was recorded on January 11, 2004.
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