My First Music: “My Mother Bids Me Bind My Hair” by Joseph Haydn, Sung by Joan Sutherland with Richard Bonynge at the Piano, 1970

Smile as you will at this mincing little ditty but it got me a medal at the Tri-State Vocal Competition of 1969 when I was fourteen. Go Minnesota!

Australian-born conductor Richard Bonynge and soprano Joan Sutherland; they married in 1962.

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• Find the FULL SLATE OF MY WRITING here
• Find my album JOHN WILSON: AN ENGLISH CONDUCTOR here

 

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