Champion For Music: Sylvia Kunin, seen here in 2014, provided support for numerous in the classical world
writes:
Shirley Verrett and Henry Lewis supporter died
Opera Fresh
"In 1955,
Sylvia Kunin founded the Young Musicians Foundation in Los Angeles that
provided support and a showcase for budding classical-music talents —
including conductor Michael Tilson Thomas, guitarist Christopher
Parkening and soprano Shirley Verrett — long before they were
world-famous....Kunin, 101, died Feb. 12 in a Seattle retirement
community. She had had a recent fall and was in declining health, said
her son, Barry Eben. The YMF is still going strong. Other musicians who
got an early boost not only from the foundation but also from classical
music television shows Kunin hosted beginning in the early 1950s include
violinists Misha Dichter and Glenn Dicterow, conductors Lawrence Foster
and Henry Lewis and cellist Nathaniel Rosen.
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