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Cecile Cooper newspaper clippings, 1966-1987
""Simon Estes"" Page 5
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SIMON ESTES continued......Page 5 him to Montreal and New York. In 1965 he entered the Munich International Competition and won third prize in a field of several hundred singers and in 1966 he took the silver medal in the Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow -- the first contest for vocalists under the same auspices as that in the instrumental field previously won by Van Cliburn. Returning hime in triumph, he was given City Hall receptions in New York and Des Moines; featured on a special Tanglewood Festival program and on TV on the "Tonight Show" and with Leonard Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic; and received at the White House by the President. Since then Simon Estes has been one of the busiest and most successful singers on two continents, constantly adding new operatic roles to his already sizeable repertoire and regularly engaged by the leading conductors as a soloist in the great oratorio masterpieces. His trans-Atlantic commuting allows him little time to enjoy his attractive New York apartment -- a high-ceilinged, five-room cooperative just off Fifth Avenue, furnished with massive Spanish tables and cabinets holding a valuable collection of antique Spanish silver and primitive African and Fiji sculptures. An excellent cook, Estes, while singing in Germany, managed to master many of that country's culinary specialties and is almost as proud of his [[underline]]Sauerbraten, Gedampfte Ente[[end underline]], and [[underline]]Semmelklosse[[end underline]] as he is of his latest concert, opera or recording success. A little over six-foot tall, with the broad-shouldered physique of a football player, he keeps his figure in trim by daily walks in the park and a morning round of weight-lifting. He drives a sleek, cognac-brown Mercedes. He loves to watch football on television and, when he has a little free time, employs his college social psychology background in non-paid engagements to address youth groups on social and racial problems. ---abw---
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SIMON ESTES continued......Page 5 him to Montreal and New York. In 1965 he entered the Munich International Competition and won third prize in a field of several hundred singers and in 1966 he took the silver medal in the Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow -- the first contest for vocalists under the same auspices as that in the instrumental field previously won by Van Cliburn. Returning hime in triumph, he was given City Hall receptions in New York and Des Moines; featured on a special Tanglewood Festival program and on TV on the "Tonight Show" and with Leonard Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic; and received at the White House by the President. Since then Simon Estes has been one of the busiest and most successful singers on two continents, constantly adding new operatic roles to his already sizeable repertoire and regularly engaged by the leading conductors as a soloist in the great oratorio masterpieces. His trans-Atlantic commuting allows him little time to enjoy his attractive New York apartment -- a high-ceilinged, five-room cooperative just off Fifth Avenue, furnished with massive Spanish tables and cabinets holding a valuable collection of antique Spanish silver and primitive African and Fiji sculptures. An excellent cook, Estes, while singing in Germany, managed to master many of that country's culinary specialties and is almost as proud of his [[underline]]Sauerbraten, Gedampfte Ente[[end underline]], and [[underline]]Semmelklosse[[end underline]] as he is of his latest concert, opera or recording success. A little over six-foot tall, with the broad-shouldered physique of a football player, he keeps his figure in trim by daily walks in the park and a morning round of weight-lifting. He drives a sleek, cognac-brown Mercedes. He loves to watch football on television and, when he has a little free time, employs his college social psychology background in non-paid engagements to address youth groups on social and racial problems. ---abw---
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