Mac Morgan, 89, Bass-Baritone Who Went on to Teach Voice, Dies
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Topic: MILESTONESJun-Dec07
Mac Morgan was an American bass-baritone who sang on radio, television and the stage from the 1940s to the 1970s and who was later chairman of the voice at Boston University, died on June 12, 2007, in Carrollton, Ga., where he lived. He was 89. He died of complications of an appendectomy, said his daughter Anne Morgan. Mac Morgan had been singing in concert halls and on the radio for years when he was asked to be a soloist at the Mass in the Cathedral of the Holy Cross for John F. Kennedy after the president was assassinated. For the first time, he worried he might not make it through Mozart's "Requiem." In 1946 he became a regular on NBC Radio’s long-running series “Highways in Melody.” In 1958 he appeared in the NBC Opera Company’s televised production of Mozart’s “Cosi Fan Tutte,”. He sang on “The Bell Telephone Hour” with Joan Sutherland, on a program that included Peggy Lee.
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