RUSSELL, SYLVESTER

RUSSELL, SYLVESTER. Music critic (14 March 1860s (?) in Orange, New Jersey; 1 October 1930 in Chicago, Illinois). He sang in church choirs as a child. He retained his high voice as an adult and was advertised as a male soprano, but he himself preferred to use the term counter-tenor. He studied with Peter O'Fake and Harry Brazan of Duff's Opera Company. His first professional experiences were in a minstrel company of Al G. Fields and in the chorus for...