On Sunday, February 22 at 2 PM at Irene Miller’s, Warren Boroson, who leads music-appreciation classes at Bard and Marist, will present a program of famous opera stars singing songs by George Gershwin, Jerome Kern, Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, and Richard Rodgers.

Warren says, “many wonderful singers have been willing to go “slumming”, singing popular songs, and we’ll hear some of the best sing some of the best.”

The singers include Luciano Pavarotti, Renata Tebaldi, Jussi Bjoerling, Lauritz Melchior, Kiri Te Kanawe, Rosa Ponselle, Lily Pons, Samuel Ramey, and Renee Fleming.

Warren will also review the blazing controversy, which pitted the Met’s Rudolf Bing against singers Lauritz Melchior and Helen Traubel. (“Nobody,” confessed Bing, “knowns the Traubel I’ve seen.”)

Irene’s address: 634 Pennsylvania Avenue, Palenville, NY 12463

For more information and to RSVP, call 518-678-3516 or email imiller65@hvc.rr.com