BOATWRIGHT, MCHENRY

BOATWRIGHT, McHENRY. Concert/Opera singer (29 February 1928 in Tennille, Georgia). He came from a musical family: his father played piano and sang, and a sister studied music at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, Massachusetts. He taught himself to play piano as a child before he began formal music study. He obtained his musical education at the New England Conservatory (B. Mus. in piano, 1950; B. Mus. in voice, 1954). In February 1956 he made his debut as...