Elly ameling biography of nancy
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I’m calling Mum’s friends – Judy says, “She was the most interesting person I ever met.” Antoinette tells me that she gave Mum piano lessons – “She was so musical,” – and that when the famous soprano Elly Ameling sang in Edmonton, the reception for her was held in my parents’ house. “Elegant, beautiful, gracious,” are the words they use to describe my mother.
I use those words too, but also, right now, I use the words “pack rat.” I don’t think my mother ever threw anything out; nothing, not a piece of junk mail, a ten year old calendar, nothing. I know, she grew up in a family with very little money and then survived the Blitz in London and rationing; there was never enough, after that. She kept things, or else she bought new things just like the old things that she couldn’t find in the jumble. I just found a bag filled with all her old lipsticks, and a box of perfumes from sixty years ago; the drawer beside her bed was filled not just with half-empty creams and old bottles of medication, but the instructions from all the medications, going back 10 years. She kept every one. But most of all – I kept finding caches of knee hi stockings. Bags and bags and bags
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ABOUT NOC
Born in Oregon Always Yearning To Return: Although my performance life took me all over theUnited States and Europe, I never recovered from a vague homesickness for Oregon: the trees, the ocean, the smell of the air and the ferns. So that’s just what I did after singing all over the US and the world. I chose to come home to make a life in Oregon amidst the trees, the ocean, the wonderful air, and the ferns.
My studio is in the Forest Heights neighborhood now, and we call our home the “The Tree House”.
Nancy and Susan Witcher in The Recognition Scene from “Anastasia” for a UIL competition. Nancy won Best Actress for her performance.
Life after Cheerleading. The Texas Years: When I was nineyears old, my Mother packed up my baby sister, Rosemary and me in the Ford Convertible and we drove home to live amid her ancestral Texas family in a small Central Texas town called Clifton. There amongst good hearted and caring people my sister and I grew up. I lived for my music class and my first solo in Texas was “Red RiverValley”, a song I adore to this day. I loved Cheerleading in High School and it was a difficult day when I was told I had a great voice, but needed to give up my cheerleading….had to give it up. My piano teacher, Mr
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Opera Today
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