Tucker sings at St. Patrick's Cathedral

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Richard Tucker was asked to sing the Panis Angelicus from the choir
loft of St. Patrick's Cathedral for the funeral service of Robert
Kennedy in early June of 1968. He obviously had to learn it on very
short and sad notice, and this rare performance now exists thanks to
Youtube. It was the only time in his life that Tucker ever sang this
piece. After he passed away in 1975, Tucker became the only person of
the Jewish faith to be given a memorial mass at St. Patrick's. He did
a lot of charitable work and appearances for Catholic Charities in NYC
and area.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odyDLmBkIoo

Ed

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On Dec 21, 12:18 pm, Gogarty <Goga...@Clongowes.edu.ie> wrote:
> In article <20091213-132140.79...@Gogarty.news.bway.net>,
> Goga...@Clongowes.edu.ie says...
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> >In article
> ><25fd7731-c863-439e-8a7e-a7b20cb26...@x15g2000vbr.googlegroups.com>,
> >edop...@gmail.com says...

> >Just lovely. We had an acquaintance who was an opera fanatic and
> >particularly a Tucker and Ramey fanatic. She died last week. She had
> >been in the hospital and subsequent convalescence for many weeks. As
> >soon as she got out of rehab she went to the Tucker retrospective at the
> >Met with her cousin. Then she went directly from the Met back to the
> >hospital where she died a few days later.
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> >Her funeral was a sad little affair with only twenty people in
> >attendance, none of whom could come up with a few words. There was no
> >music. Had there been this would have been my choice.
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> More on this:
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> Though her funeral was a sad little affair, her will was not, much to the
> shock of her heirs, namely, two cousins.
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> She left one million dollars outright to the Metropolitan Opera.
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> She left all the proceeds from the sale of two properties in New Jersey,
> probably $1.5 million or so, to the Metropolitan Opera.
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> I am glad she was able to make that last Richard Tucker gala before she
> dies.
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> She did leave something to the cousins, one of whom lives in one of the
> properties and will be out on the street.- Hide quoted text -
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Thank you for you moving and sweet post. I have taken the liberty of
forwarding this to the Tucker family, and Sam Ramey. I feel sure they
will want to read it. Thanks again.

Best wishes,
Ed