Helen Boatwright [SEP] voice type
Helen Boatwright
Helen Strassburger Boatwright (November 17, 1916 – December 1, 2010) was an American soprano who specialized in the performance of American song, recorded the first full-length album of songs by composer Charles Ives and had a career that spanned more than five decades.
Early life and career.
Born as Helena Johanna Strassburger in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, she was the youngest of six children in a large German American family. After high school, she studied with Anna Shram Irvin and earned bachelor's and
featuring Martin Luther King, Jr. Harsanyi also sang for Albert Einstein during a dinner party in Princeton, New Jersey and husband Nikki played chamber music with Einstein. While at Princeton she became the head of the voice department at Westminster Choir College in the early 1950s.
On February 17, 1969, Janice Harsanyi along with Helen Boatwright, Jenneke Barton and John Ferrante performed the opera Handel's Amadigi with the Princeton Chamber Orchestra under the direction of J. Merrill Knapp.
She has performed the works of notable composers such as Roger