[78-L] Child Singers

[David Lennick]

Never heard from again, eh..?
Barbara Shuttleworth. Soprano, b Toronto 18 Apr ca 1944; B MUS (Juilliard) 
1970. She made her debut at five on the CBC radio program 'Small Types Club' 
and was heard regularly in that series for the next eight years. She studied 
piano with John Coveart and Helen Wilson at the RCMT and voice with Judith 
Litante in California. At Juilliard 1965-70 she studied with Suzanne Bloch 
(theory and harmony) and Jennie Tourel and Beverly Johnson (voice). While a 
member of the Juilliard Opera Theater she sang in productions of Harold 
Farberman's The Losers, Richard Rodney Bennett's The Mines of Sulphur, and 
Poulenc's La Voix humaine. She has been a member of the New York Chamber 
Soloists, and she joined the New York City Opera in 1971. Among her roles with 
that company have been Kristina in Janáček's The Makropoulos Affair, Clorinda 
in Rossini's La Cenerentola, and Miss Jessel in Britten's The Turn of the 
Screw. (She repeated the last-named role with the NACO in concert performances 
in Ottawa and Toronto in 1975.) With the Santa Fe Opera she sang Nellie in Lee 
Hoiby's Summer and Smoke and the soprano lead in the premiere of Luciano 
Berio's Opera. She also has appeared with the Baltimore Opera, the Vancouver 
and Edmonton Operas, and the Welsh National Opera, and she made her COC debut 
in 1976 as Musetta in La Bohème. Other COC roles include Wanda in The Grand 
Duchess of Gerolstein and Susanna in The Marriage of Figaro. She has sung at 
the Newport (Rhode Island) Music Festival and at the Wexford Festival in 
Ireland. In 1972 she was Lisette in a CBC TV production of Puccini's La 
Rondine. She made her New York Philharmonic debut in March 1973 in a 
performance of Haydn's L'Incontro Improviso conducted by Pierre Boulez. In 1980 
she sang in The Mikado for the Southern Alberta Opera Association (Calgary 
Opera) and in 1981 she was Queen Roxana in the Opera Theatre of St Louis 
production of Szymanowski's King Roger, its US premiere, and sang in the COC 
The Merry Widow..

(Not totally off topic. Her mother, Frosia Gregory, made 78s. Come to think of 
it so did Baby Bee, with Byng Whittaker.)

dl wrote:
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> Speaking of Molly Bee, I wonder what became of Barbara Shuttleworth, who did 
> singing commercials and shtick on The Small Types Club as "Baby Bee"?
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