Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/Kathleen Ferrier

Kathleen Ferrier

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The result was: not scheduled by Jimfbleak - talk to me?  14:10, 7 March 2022 (UTC)



Kathleen Ferrier (1912–1953) was an English contralto who achieved an international reputation as a stage, concert and recording artist. She began singing professionally in 1937, after winning a singing competition. During the Second World War she performed regularly with the Council for the Encouragement of the Arts (CEMA). In 1946 she made her stage debut as Lucretia in the Glyndebourne Festival world premiere of Britten's The Rape of Lucretia. A year later she appeared as Orfeo in Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice; these remained her only two operatic roles. As a recitalist, Ferrier focussed on works by Bach, Brahms, Mahler and Elgar. She formed close working relationships Sir John Barbirolli, Bruno Walter and the accompanist Gerald Moore. She became known internationally through her three tours of the United States and her many visits to continental Europe. She continued to perform and record after being diagnosed with breast cancer in March 1951. Her death in October 1953 was a shock to the music world. Among her many memorials, the Kathleen Ferrier Cancer Research Fund was launched in May 1954, and the Kathleen Ferrier Scholarship Fund makes annual awards to aspiring young professional singers.
 * Most recent similar article(s): No classical performer I remember.
 * Main editors: Brian Boulton
 * Promoted: June 2011
 * Reasons for nomination: Her birthday. Second run, first was 2012. We can't show enough of Brian's creations.
 * Support as nominator. Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:38, 4 March 2021 (UTC)
 * I had written that far when I noticed that in 2022, it was a bit "rounder" an anniversary of her birthday, and postponed to now. Also, we'll see all March - women's month - without a woman's biography. So please consider to repeat her, for more than one reason. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:05, 5 February 2022 (UTC)
 * Support, for the reasons advanced by G. Arendt, all three of which I completely agree with.  Tim riley  talk   20:49, 5 February 2022 (UTC)
 * Afterthought: if the article is selected for the front page, it would be nice if we could have "focused" spelled thus. ("Focussed" is admitted by some dictionaries, but is not the standard form and is not recommended by Fowler, the OED etc.)  Tim riley  talk   20:54, 5 February 2022 (UTC)
 * Another afterthought: "She formed close working relationships Sir John Barbirolli, Bruno Walter ..." would be better as "She formed close working relationships with the conductors Sir John Barbirolli and Bruno Walter ..."  Tim riley  talk   21:02, 5 February 2022 (UTC)
 * Thank you, and please feel free to make changes to obviously better wording. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:10, 5 February 2022 (UTC)


 * Support per nomination, as a worthy topic with a good blurb. I haven't reviewed the article (last assessed in 2011), and if other found issues I would reconsider, but I wouldn't expect it to have changed much since it was promoted given that the subject died in 1953. &#123;{u&#124; Sdkb  }&#125;  talk 02:34, 6 February 2022 (UTC)
 * Withdrawing support given better alternative below. I'd love to see this next year, though. &#123;{u&#124; Sdkb  }&#125;  talk 18:14, 22 February 2022 (UTC)
 * Oppose we have a singer for the same date (and of global interest), so we don't need to resort to a re-run. Sandy Georgia (Talk)  04:49, 22 February 2022 (UTC)
 * I explained in the other nomination that it's fine with me to celebrate her 111th birthday. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:18, 22 February 2022 (UTC)