Celebrated opera singer dies, had Schenectady childhood
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After growing up in Schenectady and studying mathematics at Vassar, Elizabeth Kingdon-Grünwald became a singer and moved to Germany where she was a celebrated operatic diva known for her interpretations of Wagner. She died in Nuremberg on Jan. 22 at age 92. Her death was announced there by the Pocket Opera Company, which she had been associated with for 45 years.
She was the only child of Kenneth H. Kingdon and Leah May Zeh. Her father was a physicist who joined General Electric in 1920 and did important nuclear research during World War II. He prevailed on his daughter to study math but after obtaining her degree, Mary Elizabeth turned her focus to singing and began working with teachers in New York and Boston.
Ved Mehta, an Eclectic Writer of Prose Whose Disability Didn t Prevent Him from Seeing the World
A tribute by a younger writer and longstanding admirer who was greatly inspired by Mehta.
Ved Mehta. Photo: YouTube screengrab
Culture11/Jan/2021
The writer Ved Mehta has died. He was 86. He will be remembered in India for his moving account of his childhood â at the age of three, he became blind after suffering from an attack of meningitis. He was admitted by his affluent doctor father at the Dadar School for the Blind. After a distinguished scholarly career that took him from Pomona College in California to Oxford University and then to Harvard, he joined
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