Articles, Speeches. Interviews
For any document with accompanying
audio, the audio is immediately below the item in the list.
1. Ever Young: Douglas Moore and the Persistence of Legend by Dave Kanzeg
2. A Silver Lining And Its Cloud: Opera Baby Doe Mines Old Scandal by David G. Kanzeg
3. American Opera: The Sublimation Of Ordinariness by Derek M. Mills
4. Baby Doe Is An Opera Rich In Americana by Robert Finn
5. An American Epic: Ever Young by Derek M. Mills
6. Comments about Carl Zuckmayer’s Das Leben des H.A.W. Tabor by Siegfried Mews
7. Current Chronicle by William L. Crosten
8. The Ballad of Baby Doe: Central City Opera Has Important Premiere by George Lynn
9. The Perils of Baby Doe by Lewis J. Hardee, Jr.
10. Caroline Bancroft speaking to Dave Kanzeg in November, 1974 about the time she met Baby Doe
11. Beverly Sills speaking to Dave Kanzeg in July, 1973 about playing the role of Baby Doe
12. Baby Doe: A Tale of Two Operas by David Bamberger
13. John Martin speaking to Dave Kanzeg in May, 1994, on memories of the real Baby Doe
14. The Ballad of Baby Doe and the American Spirit by David G. Kanzeg
15. I Can’t Live Without…Baby Doe by Rebecca Paller
16. Frances Bible speaking to Dave Kanzeg in 1973
17. Walter Cassel speaking to Dave Kanzeg in April 1994
18. Douglas Moore – Something about librettos Opera News, New York, Sept. 30, 1961
19. The OTHER DOE: Harvey after Baby by Jim Metz
20. The Oshkosh of Baby Doe: A Lecture by Jim Metz
21. Romantic West in Baby Doe by Lucius Beebe
22. Tabor Books Glut Market by Caroline Bancroft
23. The Real Story on Baby Doe & Horace’s Kids by Jim Metz
24. Mimi Shaw and Leyna Gabriele talk with Dave Kanzeg about 50 years of Baby Doe; June 30th, 2006
25. ‘Baby Doe’ Returns, Still Girlish at 50 by Tim Page
26. Let’s see some US Operas for a Change (Toronto Star) by William Littler
27. Evelyn Furman talks with Dave Kanzeg
28. This Cloud Had A Silver Lining… by T. L. Ponick
29. Homesteading and Huck Finn with Tunes by Malcolm Hayes
The following three were delivered as part of a panel presentation titled “Making Biography Live(ly) (Stories of ‘Baby Doe’ Tabor)” at the October 2007 Western History Association conference in Oklahoma City, and are used here with permission.
30. Biography or Hagiography: Less Familiar Facets of the Complete Baby Doe by James I. Metz
31. Mocking with All Due Respect by Debra B. Faulkner
32. The Crossroads of Biography: Is it Possible to be Popular and Postmodern? by Judy Nolte Temple
33. ‘Baby Doe’ Seen Most Noteworthy from Cleveland Plain Dealer by Harlowe R. Hoyt
34. Beverly Sills Captivating as Baby Doe from Cleveland News by Ethel Boros
35. Musicarnival Scores with “Baby Doe” from Cleveland Press by Frank Hruby
36. John Kander: Passing Through Curtains by Frank J. Oteri
37. Obituary: Evelyn Furman
38. Beverly Sills performances, including two rarities, among Musicarnival opera recordings soon to be available at libraries by Donald Rosenberg