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Beverly Sills speaks to Hadassah and a
Birmingham event celebrates its 10th anniversary.
learned arias at age 8 because
everly Sills admit-
her
mother was determined
ted to having an
to
have
an opera singer
especially hectic
daughter.
day last week. On
"Nice women don't go on
the morning of Sept. 14, Sills
was the motto of her
stage,"
spoke here at Temple Israel
father,
who
finally endorsed
before the opening meeting
her
career
when
it became
of the Greater Detroit
obvious
that
she
was talent-
Chapter of Hadassah; that
ed.
evening she was honored at
CARLA JEAN
Sills' speech was humor-
Lincoln Center in New York.
SCHWARTZ
ous
and warm. She men-
General director of the New
Local Columnist
tioned
an embarrassing
York City Opera from 1979-
moment
when she agreed to
91, she is chairman of the
give
someone
a
short
interview. She
board of the Lincoln Center for the
met
the
man
in
the
lobby,
assuming
Performing Arts.
he
was
the
reporter,
and
took
him
Hadassah Chapter President
upstairs
for
what
she
said
would
be a
Beverly Apel greeted the more than
"quickie."
He
proceeded
to
her
room.
750 patrons at the meeting. "Tharik
When she finally realized he was the
you for committing to healing peo-
wrong person — "Why did you
ple's lives in Israel and around the
come up here?" she asked the gentle-
word," she said. Marcy Wasserman
man. He replied, "I just wanted to tell
and Wendy Kohlenberg, co chairmen
my wife that I had a quickie with
of the event, introduced Sills.
Beverly Sills."
"Conversations with Beverly Sills,"
The speaker acknowledged her
the title of her speech, focused on the
Detroit
Silverman relatives in the
former opera singer's life and family.
audience
and noted that her uncle,
She sprinkled anecdotes giving
Harry
Silverman,
built the
insights into the patriarchal European
Pontchartrain
Hotel.
household into which she was born,
Sills, who has disabled children,
where the male children were revered.
donated
her speaker's fee to charity.
"I attribute my career to my mother,"
said Sills, a coloratura soprano who
Tenth Anniversary
Birmingham's 10th annual "Fall
Spectacular" will be held 6 p.m.
Wednesday, Sept. 29, under the
tents between the Townsend
Hotel and the Birmingham
B
-
Above:
Debbie Astrein, Richard Astrein and
Rhonda Cohen were at the pre party for
Birmingham's Fall Spectacular.
Right:
Gail Mondry and Lillian Genser pro-
mote peace through education.