The breadth of Arroyo's work is reflected in countless recordings of major operas and orchestral works.Īppointed by President Gerald Ford in 1976, Arroyo served six years on the NEA's National Council on the Arts and currently serves on the boards at Carnegie Hall, the Metropolitan Opera Guild, Collegiate Chorale, and is a trustee emerita of the Hunter College Foundation. Three more significant opera house debuts occurred in 1972, that of Milan's La Scala, Paris' Opéra National, and Buenos Aires' Teatro Colón. In 1968, she debuted in London as Valentine in a concert version of Giacomo Meyerbeer's Les Huguenots and also made her Covent Garden debut in Aïda in the title role. She went on to perform at the Met all of the major Verdi roles that would become the basis of her repertory, as well as Donna Anna, Cio-Cio-San, Liù, Santuzza, Gioconda, and Elsa. Although Nilsson was one of the most famous voices at the time, the ever-critical Met audience cheered Arroyo's performance in the role with a standing ovation. After performing minor roles at the Met, Arroyo went to Europe and performed major roles in Vienna, Düsseldorf, Berlin, Frankfurt, and Zurich, where her dramatic performances earned her increasing recognition and popularity.Īt the Met in 1965, she substituted for an ailing Birgit Nilsson in the role of Aïda. That same year she made her Carnegie Hall debut in the American première of Ildebrando Pizzetti's Assassinio nella cattedrale. She pursued singing full-time, focusing her energy at the Met's Kathryn Long School on courses ranging from drama and diction to acting and fencing. In 1958, Arroyo again attempted - and won - the Metropolitan Opera Auditions of the Air radio competition, in which young singers compete for admission to the Met's training program. Simultaneously, she continued her vocal studies with Marinka Gurewich and auditioned at the Met but without success.
She subsequently enrolled in graduate work at NYU, began teaching Italian at a New York City public school in the Bronx, and began work at the city's welfare department as a case worker. At the age of 19, she earned her BA from Hunter College, where she studied to become a high school language teacher and participated in the college's Opera Workshop, studying voice with Joseph Turnau. While supporting her interest in a career in the arts, her parents encouraged her to pursue a more financially stable career as well. I just started using MM Gold within the last few weeks, I got an iPod Classic 120GB for my birthday, started using iTunes and hated it from the start.Born on February 2, 1937, and raised in Harlem by her Puerto Rican father and African-American mother, Martina Arroyo's arts development began at a young age with ballet classes, piano lessons, and singing in the church choir.
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I can't find a way to remove the dupes from the auto playlist, nor can I figure out how to use the "edit playlist criteria" to not choose a song with the same title and artist that has already been chosen. I only want to listen to it once in the cycle.Ĭurrently the only way I know how to work around this is to set the auto playlist to "now playing", save the "now playing" songs to a regular playlist, open the regular playlist and use the remove duplicates script, then resave the regular playlist without the dupes in it. I create an auto playlist and it picks this song from all three (or four, etc) albums. Lets say the song is The Grand Illusion by Styx, a very popular song on many compilation albums. What I would like to do is remove duplicate songs from an Auto Playlist.įor example: I have a compilation album and a "best of" album and also the source or original release album in the library.
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