Published in The Frederick News-Post on April 24, 2013:
Cora Alter, a resident of Worman's Mill for almost 18 years, succumbed to her foe, cancer, on April 21, 2013. She was 76 years old.
Cora had a long career as a professional classical singer and choral conductor. She was a popular jazz singer and teacher. She could remember learning to read words but not her even earlier training to read music. She was a graduate of New York's High School of Music and Art (the "Fame" school) and Queens College in New York City where she studied voice. After graduation she taught middle school music for a short time and then began singing professionally as a church soloist and with the chorus of the Washington Opera. The family moved to the Chicago area for a few years where she continued her church and synagogue soloist work and sang with the professional group of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra chorus.
Cora sung at the White House and the Kennedy Center and produced at the Center. She was Chorus Mistress for the Shir Chadash Chorale and for two concert opera groups. More than once she was called upon by community theater groups to step in as music director last minute. One of these produc- tions was nominated for the coveted Helen Hayes award.
Cora was a consummate and popular teacher. She taught from pre-K to seniors. At FCC, she taught courses at the Institute for Learning in Retirement about opera, Gilbert and Sullivan and the Golden Age of the American popular song. She insisted that this was her give-back and took no pay.
Cora Alter, a resident of Worman's Mill for almost 18 years, succumbed to her foe, cancer, on April 21, 2013. She was 76 years old.
Cora had a long career as a professional classical singer and choral conductor. She was a popular jazz singer and teacher. She could remember learning to read words but not her even earlier training to read music. She was a graduate of New York's High School of Music and Art (the "Fame" school) and Queens College in New York City where she studied voice. After graduation she taught middle school music for a short time and then began singing professionally as a church soloist and with the chorus of the Washington Opera. The family moved to the Chicago area for a few years where she continued her church and synagogue soloist work and sang with the professional group of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra chorus.
Cora sung at the White House and the Kennedy Center and produced at the Center. She was Chorus Mistress for the Shir Chadash Chorale and for two concert opera groups. More than once she was called upon by community theater groups to step in as music director last minute. One of these produc- tions was nominated for the coveted Helen Hayes award.
Cora was a consummate and popular teacher. She taught from pre-K to seniors. At FCC, she taught courses at the Institute for Learning in Retirement about opera, Gilbert and Sullivan and the Golden Age of the American popular song. She insisted that this was her give-back and took no pay.
Published in The Frederick News-Post on April 24, 2013:
Cora Alter, a resident of Worman's Mill for almost 18 years, succumbed to her foe, cancer, on April 21, 2013. She was 76 years old.
Cora had a long career as a professional classical singer and choral conductor. She was a popular jazz singer and teacher. She could remember learning to read words but not her even earlier training to read music. She was a graduate of New York's High School of Music and Art (the "Fame" school) and Queens College in New York City where she studied voice. After graduation she taught middle school music for a short time and then began singing professionally as a church soloist and with the chorus of the Washington Opera. The family moved to the Chicago area for a few years where she continued her church and synagogue soloist work and sang with the professional group of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra chorus.
Cora sung at the White House and the Kennedy Center and produced at the Center. She was Chorus Mistress for the Shir Chadash Chorale and for two concert opera groups. More than once she was called upon by community theater groups to step in as music director last minute. One of these produc- tions was nominated for the coveted Helen Hayes award.
Cora was a consummate and popular teacher. She taught from pre-K to seniors. At FCC, she taught courses at the Institute for Learning in Retirement about opera, Gilbert and Sullivan and the Golden Age of the American popular song. She insisted that this was her give-back and took no pay.
Cora Alter, a resident of Worman's Mill for almost 18 years, succumbed to her foe, cancer, on April 21, 2013. She was 76 years old.
Cora had a long career as a professional classical singer and choral conductor. She was a popular jazz singer and teacher. She could remember learning to read words but not her even earlier training to read music. She was a graduate of New York's High School of Music and Art (the "Fame" school) and Queens College in New York City where she studied voice. After graduation she taught middle school music for a short time and then began singing professionally as a church soloist and with the chorus of the Washington Opera. The family moved to the Chicago area for a few years where she continued her church and synagogue soloist work and sang with the professional group of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra chorus.
Cora sung at the White House and the Kennedy Center and produced at the Center. She was Chorus Mistress for the Shir Chadash Chorale and for two concert opera groups. More than once she was called upon by community theater groups to step in as music director last minute. One of these produc- tions was nominated for the coveted Helen Hayes award.
Cora was a consummate and popular teacher. She taught from pre-K to seniors. At FCC, she taught courses at the Institute for Learning in Retirement about opera, Gilbert and Sullivan and the Golden Age of the American popular song. She insisted that this was her give-back and took no pay.
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