The great opera soprano Leontyne Price, the first African American to become internationally famous in the opera, is one of the top female singers of the last 200 years. Still living in 2011, she performed in popular musicals as well, delivering one of finest performances ever given in Porgy and Bess. With a multiple-octave range, versatility in opera, pop, and jazz for over 60 years and still singing recitals, she was kind enough to visit one of my classes when I was a child.As a critic and a person, I am still astounded by her.
All time questions are impossible to answer, unless the end of time is so close that this doesn't matter anyway. Where are the men on the list, are you suggesting that there or no men worthy of the title; that's a bit sexist, isn't it? These three wailing women are, all three, very low in the list.
Try Joan Sutherland, Mahalia Jackson, Pavarotti...they and many others, male and female, knock your three out of the playing field. How about Joan Baez with a full range voice? Ah, congratulations, my wife has just come in and I asked her if she had any input on your question, she was speechless, this is an unknown event for me.
All time questions are impossible to answer, unless the end of time is so close that this doesn't matter anyway. Where are the men on the list, are you suggesting that there or no men worthy of the title; that's a bit sexist, isn't it? These three wailing women are, all three, very low in the list.
I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.