I found this interview with baritone Jubilant Sykes to be especially poignant. Sykes was fatally stabbed on Monday, and his 31-year-old son, said to have a history of mental illness, was taken into custody. Reading it really brings you closer to the man. It’s a little surreal to hear him speak so lovingly about his children, then still quite young.
https://www.bruceduffie.com/sykes.html
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A Lament for Jubilant
This is very sad, all the more horrible, coming as it does during the holiday season. Jubilant Sykes appeared in the world’s great opera houses and sang the Celebrant on a Grammy-nominated album of Leonard Bernstein’s “Mass.”
He died on Monday of stab wounds allegedly inflicted by his son.
Sykes was 71 years old.
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