Anne McKnight [SEP] date of death
Anne McKnight
Anne McKnight (24 July 1924 - 29 August 2012) was an operatic soprano.
Life and career.
A native of Aurora, Illinois, she was a 1943 graduate of Shimer College. McKnight made her official debut in 1946, as Musetta in the NBC Symphony's Concert Version of "La bohème", with Licia Albanese and Jan Peerce, conducted by Arturo Toscanini. Two years later, she sang in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony under the Maestro.
McKnight opened the 1952 Fall Season of the
the Mount Vernon plantation. Upon the death of Lawrence's widow Anne, George Washington inherited the estate at Mount Vernon.
Family.
Lawrence and Anne had four children together, but none survived childhood; the first three died in infancy:
- Jane (Sep. 27, 1744 - Jan. 1745)
- Fairfax (Aug. 22, 1747 - Oct. 1747)
- Mildred (Sept. 28, 1748 - 1749)
- Sarah Washington (Nov. 7, 1750 - 1754)
Lawrence Washington military portrait.