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Born in Heidelberg, Germany Gray received her BA degree from Bryn Mawr in 1950 and her Ph.D. in history from Harvard University 1957. From 1950 to 1952, she was a Fulbright Scholar at Oxford University...
Prior to her time at Smith, Dunn served as Dean of the Undergraduate College at Bryn Mawr College, where she had formerly been a professor of history...
...brought a new way to become an opera star fast: get on the box. In 1986 mezzo-soprano Cecilia Bartoli jump- started a huge international career by singing an aria on an Italian variety show. She was 19. Now Welsh bass-baritone Bryn Terfel, 29, is taking the opera world by storm. His career, which is only four years old, began when he placed second in the Cardiff Singer of the World competition, an event in which both the heats and the finals are televised. Videocassettes flew around Europe, and the phone began to ring: Solti, Abbado, Sinopoli, Muti. Would...
...small North Wales village near Snowdonia. His family are farmers; his first language is Welsh. Not for nothing is Wales called "the land of song." There, singing is not a self-conscious act but a community expression. Eisteddfods, or local song contests, flourish even in hamlets. Young Bryn won a long string of them and used the modest prize money to buy soccer shoes...
...Bryn was a busy kid. "I was quite a little taxi for him," recalls his mother Nesta Jones. (Terfel is Bryn's middle name; another singer uses the name Bryn Jones.) What he learned at the eisteddfods was stage presence: "When I went to college I was streets ahead of others because I was used to facing the public." At London's Guildhall School of Music and Drama, he was awarded a scholarship. It was then, Nesta Jones says, "that we thought he had something special...