Ebook: Florence! Foster!! Jenkins!!!: the life of the world's worst opera singer
Author: Bullock Darryl W., Jenkins Florence Foster
- Tags: Singers, Singers--United States, Socialites, Socialites--United States, Women singers, Women singers--United States, Biographies, Biography, Jenkins Florence Foster -- 1868-1944, Women singers -- United States -- Biography, Singers -- United States -- Biography, Socialites -- United States -- Biography, United States
- Year: 2017
- Publisher: Gerald Duckworth & Co
- City: United States
- Language: English
- epub
INDIVIDUAL ACTORS & PERFORMERS. Madame Jenkins couldn't carry a tune in a bucket: despite that, in 1944 at the age of 76, she performed at Carnegie Hall to a capacity audience and had celebrity fans by the score, including Cole Porter and Tallulah Bankhead. Her infamous 1940s recordings are still highly prized today and, seventy years after her death, she maintains a cult following that includes Barbra Streisand and the late David Bowie. In this sparkling biography, Darryl W. Bullock shares the story of how socialite Florence Foster Jenkins financed her own meteoric rise to success, championed by her adoring friends, long-suffering accompanist, and devoted husband/manager St. Clair Bayfield, who stood by his wife's side through every sharp note and shielded her from her harshest critics.
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