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Article: Obituary: Dame Joan Hammond
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- November 28, 1996
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An operatic soprano who was also a champion golfer, a
first-class swimmer and a keen yachtswoman; a classical singer who
was awarded a Golden Disc for selling over a million copies of her
recording of an aria from Puccini's Gianni Schicchi: Joan Hammond
transcended all the barriers normally raised between popular and
classical music, between art and sport.
As with so many other stage performers of her generation, her
career was interrupted by the Second World War; it was also
curtailed by ill- health. Nevertheless, for more than a quarter of
a century she enjoyed a successful, varied career in the
concert-halls and opera houses of Europe, America and Australia.
Her voice, bright in colour, ...