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	William Warfield - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		William Warfield, concert baritone singer, was born in West Helena, Arkansas on January 22, 1920.
		Warfield was also accomplished in acting and poetry recitation.
		Warfield was active in many organizations, and served on the boards of the National Association of Negro Musicians (NANM) and the Schiller Institute.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_Warfield (216 words)

	William Warfield is acclaimed throughout the world as one of the great vocal artists of our time
		William Warfield is acclaimed throughout the world as one of the great vocal artists of our time.
		Warfield was born in West Helene Arkansas January 22, 1920, the eldest of five sons.
		The intervening years have witnessed the Warfield career expand and deepen without interruption--countless concerts, recitals, soloist appearances with symphony orchestras and their big-name maestri, even performances as non-singing narrator...with many impressive honors and awards in recognition of William Warfield for his important contribution in The Arts.
	www.music.miami.edu /festivalmiami2000/fest2000bios/warfield.htm (601 words)

	William Warfield Biography
		William Warfield, now an advanced voice teacher in Chicago, following a long career as an operatic baritone, is one of the world leading experts on Negro Spirituals and German Lieder.
		Warfield was born in the town of West Helena, Arkansas, to a family of sharecroppers.
		Dr. Warfield joined the Board of the Schiller Institute in 1996 and has been engaged in the efforts of the Schiller Institute to revive a movement for a National Conservatory of Music, first pioneered at the beginning of the century by Antonin Dvorak.
	www.schillerinstitute.org /biographys/bio_warfield_new.html (379 words)

	Legendary Singer William Warfield Dies at 82 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The eldest of five sons, Warfield was born in West Helena, Ark., in 1920.
		Warfield received honorary doctorates from the University of Arkansas, Lafayette University, Boston University, Augustana College, James Millikin University, Illinois State University, and Morehouse College.
		Warfield won a Grammy in "the spoken word" category for his outstanding narration of Aaron Copland's A Lincoln Portrait, accompanied by the Eastman Philharmonic Orchestra, currently under the Mercury-Philips label.
	www.wooster.edu /news/0203/WarfieldObituary.html (388 words)

	WILLIAM WARFIELD
		Warfield's singing of "Old Man River" produced spontaneous applause from movie audiences everywhere and was included on the "Showboat" album as well as in the movie "That's Entertainment" as one of the greatest moments in MGM musical history.
		William Warfield was born in West Helena, Arkansas on January 22, 1920, the eldest of five sons.
		Warfield retired from the University in 1990 but has not slowed his pace as he continues to fulfill the many requests he receives to teach master classes and perform as a singer, actor, narrator, and jazz musician.
	www.jacksonsymphony.org /people/william_warfield.htm (842 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Arts news \| Obituary: William Warfield
		The American bass-baritone William Warfield, who has died aged 82 after complications from breaking his neck in a fall, rose to fame through his portrayal of Porgy in a legendary production of Gershwin's Porgy and Bess that toured the US and went to the Vienna Staatsoper and halls in Berlin and London in 1952-53.
		Warfield had the plangent voice and appealing stage presence to accept the many opportunities the opera offered him to exploit those attributes, and the pair showed an affinity with each other's work.
		Warfield was born the eldest of five sons of a Baptist minister in West Helena, Arkansas, where he received his earliest vocal training.
	www.guardian.co.uk /arts/news/story/0,11711,781730,00.html (598 words)

	ORDER OF SERVICE FOR THE WORSHIP OF GOD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		William was a member of the Mt. Vernon Baptist Church.
		Warfield, became pastor of Mt. Vernon in 1947.
		William Warfield is survived by his brothers Thaddeus of Rochester (served as Minister of Music at Mt. Vernon Baptist Church for many years) and Verne of Henrietta, his aunt Lillie Lee of Rochester and by numerous nephews and nieces.
	www.mtvernonbaptistchurch.com /special.htm (322 words)

	William Warfield (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Through the years, critics commented that William Warfield's superiority as recitalist stemmed from his unusual ability as an actor, which he proved often in singing roles as well as those merely spoken.
		Warfield was appointed as Chairman of the Illinois Voice Department.
		Warfield, 82, died Sunday at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago where he had been recovering from a fall late last month, his brother Thaddeus Warfield said.
	www.riverwalk.org /profiles/warfield.htm (1079 words)

	AASRP - Afro-American Studies & Research Program
		William Warfield (1920-2002) was a member of the University of Illinois faculty in the College of Music from 1976 until 1990, when he retired as Chair of the division of Voice.
		Warfield, a bass-baritone, was an internationally acclaimed performer who has a long and rich career.
		This award was established to honor the contributions of William Warfield to the Champaign-Urbana, national and world communities.
	www.aasrp.uiuc.edu /education/award_wwce2004.html (455 words)

	Biography of William Warfield (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Warfield was engaged to sing the lead in the national touring company of the Broadway hit Call Me Mister.
		Warfield took part in countless concerts, recitals, soloist appearances with symphony orchestras and even performances as a non-singing narrator.
		Warfield was awarded an honorary degree from Boston University, in 1983 a Doctor of Human Letters was bestowed from Augustana College, Illinois, and in 1984 James Milliken University.
	www.canticlassics.com /wimwarfield.html (679 words)

	Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Warfield received his M.M. in Jazz Commercial Trumpet from the Manhattan School of Music, where he won the William H. Borden Award for Outstanding Accomplishment in Jazz/Commercial Music, the Carmine Caruso Award for Outstanding Musicality and Trumpet Performance, and the Maynard Ferguson Scholarship.
		The Bill Warfield Big Band was featured at the International Association of Jazz Educators Convention in 1994 and 1998, and at the NYC Brass Conference in 1991, 1995, 1997, 1998, and 1999.
		He was the director of the jazz ensemble at the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music at the City University of New York, Director of Jazz Studies and the Dalton School in New York, and Assistant Professor of Jazz Trumpet at the University of North Florida.
	www.lehigh.edu /~inmsc/faculty/warfield.html (475 words)

	William Warfield, Baritone
		Warfield makes no secret of the fact that he loves the attention he is getting at an age when most singers have long since retired to the comfort of their rose-colored memories.
		Warfield's original goal was to become a music teacher, not a singer.
		But Warfield had established himself as an oratorio singer by then, and his career was doing so well it did not need the Met's kiss of approval, or any other opera company's.
	stlouis.missouri.org /501c/chband/warfield.html (1401 words)

	A Dialogue on the African-American Spiritual: With William Warfield and Sylvia Olden Lee
		On the weekend of Jan. 19-21, 2001, William Warfield and Sylvia Olden Lee were featured in a series of events in Houston, Texas, which offered, to those privileged to be in attendance, precious insights into how to convey beautiful ideas through the performance of Classical music.
		Warfield performed three sets of Spirituals, accompanied on the piano by Olden Lee, the first two of which were preceded by a poetic recitation by Warfield.
		WARFIELD: [sings]: ``Wade in the watah, in the watah, children, wade in the watah.'' The word ``watah'' is sung slightly flat.
	www.members.tripod.com /~american_almanac/warfield.htm (5012 words)

	A Conversation with William Warfield by Roger Cooper, WILL-FM
		A Conversation with William Warfield by Roger Cooper, WILL-FM A Conversation with William Warfield
		There is the same rich warmth of voice, the same vibrancy of personality infusing all that he says with excitement and musical inflection, and, of course, an amusing anecdote or colorful turn of phrase is never very far from the tongue of the master storyteller.
		A conversation with William Warfield is a concert of wit, warmth and wisdom accompanied by charm and graciousness and a zest for life and living that is easily transferred to his audience.
	www.will.uiuc.edu /fm/programs/classicallyblack/warfieldfeature.htm (378 words)

	Jim Cullum Jazz Band (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		William Warfield's recital debut in New York's famous Town Hall in 1950 put him into the front ranks of concert artists overnight.
		Warfield chose the Eastman School of Music at the University of Rochester, where the young singer earned his bachelor's degree and, after four interim years in military service, returned to study for his Masters.
		In 1975, Warfield accepted his appointment as Professor of Music at the University of Illinois.
	www.koger.sc.edu /cullum.html (1827 words)

	Porgy & Bess: High Performance \| Leontyne Price, William Warfield, ... \| Peerless
		William Warfield (the father, I believe, of comedian Marsha Warfield) is splendid as Porgy.
		She owned the role of Bess by the time this recording was made, and her acting and vocal skills are matchless (It's possible that the opening "..Ooooh.." in "What You Want Wit' Bess?" is one of the sexiest and most dramatic ten seconds in the history of recording).
		William Warfield is not far behind in his portrayal of Porgy - it is beatifully sung, if not as convincingly acted as some of the other characters.
	www.this-is-great.com /info/xbfffffxibxmxj (1021 words)

	WILLIAM WARFIELD TO PERFORM WITH KU SYMPHONIC BAND
		Guest soloists for this concert include William Warfield, who will both sing his signature piece, "Old Man River," from the musical "Showboat" by Jerome Kern, and narrate "A Lincoln Portrait" by Aaron Copland.
		Since his debut recital in New York's Town Hall in March 1950, Warfield has been recognized as one of the leading vocal artists of the century.
		Warfield attended the Eastman School of Music, Rochester, N.Y., on a scholarship for first prize in the National Music Education League Competition.
	www.news.ku.edu /1998/98N/FebNews/Feb5/syposium.html (726 words)

	FIDELIO Article by Dan Leach: William Warfield, Shakespeare, and Keats, Fall 2001 Schiller Institute
		William Warfield, one of the great masters of the last fifty years in the art of poetic expression in both classical singing, and poetry, proper.
		Warfield clearly recognized this, and pointed out that when one says "This thought," one must pause to let the full weight of "this thought"—the entirety of the poem up to this point, sink in.
		Warfield stressed here, as he always does in the case of singing, the full enunciation of all of the consonants and vowels sounds in these crucial phrases.
	www.schillerinstitute.org /fid_97-01/013_poetry.html (3725 words)

	William Warfield (Baritone) - Short Biography
		The fl American baritone and teacher, William Warfield, was born to a family of sharecroppers.
		The panorama of his life and art embraces the Cold War and the Civil Rights movement, the big-studio era of Hollywood and the innovation of television drama, his marriage to Leontyne Price (they were married in 1952, but divorced in 1974), and his stage and screen roles in Porgy and Bess and Show Boat.
		In 1974 William Warfield became a teacher at the University of Illinois.
	www.bach-cantatas.com /Bio/Warfield-William.htm (556 words)

	Warfield, William Caesar -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
		A great character actor whose directness and tenderness on stage were renowned, David Warfield made his mark before the days of motion pictures.
		The tragedy of Julius Caesar, a five-act play by William Shakespeare, dramatizes the death in 44 BC of the celebrated Roman general and statesman.
		William Harvey's studies were the beginnings of the science of physiology.
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article?tocId=9339876 (611 words)

	UCB Libraries \| AMRC \| Conferences (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		William Kearns is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Music at the University of Colorado at Boulder, where he has taught courses in American music, Anglo-American folk music, music esthetics, and music history since 1965.
		Avid Williams, singer, coach, and conductor, is a graduate of the Boys Choir of Harlem and Queens College (CUNY).
		Helene Williams co-founded the Bronx Opera in 1967 and the Elie Siegmeister Society in 1999.
	ucblibraries.colorado.edu /amrc/conferencebios.htm (4938 words)

	[Deathwatch] William Warfield , singer, 82 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Singer William Warfield Dead at 82 Tue Aug 27, 2:34 PM ET CHICAGO (Reuters) - William Warfield, the bass-baritone who gave an unmatched rendition of "Ol' Man River" in MGM's 1951 production of "Show Boat" and repeated it in countless concerts thereafter, has died at age 82, his family said on Tuesday.
		Warfield fell at his Chicago home and was being treated at a hospital when he died on Sunday.
		He had performed in concert as recently as a month ago.
	slick.org /pipermail/deathwatch/2002-August/000219.html (129 words)

	Cab Calloway - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In his later career, Calloway became a popular actor, appearing in a number of films and stage productions that utilized both his acting and singing talents.
		In 1959, he played the prominent role of "Sportin' Life" in a production of the Gershwin opera Porgy and Bess aside William Warfield and Leontyne Price as the title characters.
		Another notable role was The Cincinnati Kid (1965), with Steve McQueen and Edward G. Robinson.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cab_Calloway (785 words)

	Something Within Me by William Warfield CD
		William Warfield is the singer/actor who appeared in the 1951 MGM musical "Show Boat" singing "Ol' Man River" and recorded the definitive "Porgy and Bess" for RCA in 1963.
		Warfield is also known for his world premieres of classic songs by composer Aaron
		JazzTimes (p.131) - "Featuring a lively new Orleans-style octet, with Carter on clarinet and Warfield at the piano, it serves as superb testament to an American treasure." Dirty Linen (p.51) - "[B]reathtaking....Carter's rootin'-tootin' crackerjack ensemble jumps, jives, and wails through numerous New Orleans-centric instrumentals...
	cduniverse.com /search/xx/music/pid/6705468/a/Something+Within+Me.htm (240 words)

	Jared Warfield Genealogy
		Heirs:William Cooke, son of Ann Cooke:Sarah Cooke and William Cooke, Catherine Harden, late Warfield, wife of Samuel J. Harden: J.W. Littlejohn and wife: Charles Schnitzer and wife: John, Delilah, Emily, James A. and Joseph Warfield.
		It does have a Jarrad, son of Samuel Warfield and Sarah Welsh, who are g-grandparents of the John Warfield also buried in Canaan cemetery.
		This same researcher also sends that the John Warfield who is buried in Canaan cemetery (see notes for Emeline) was born in MD and married in Henry Co KY. Could John have stopped in VA on his way to KY, and Jared have joined him?
	hindskw.com /KennethHinds/11779.html (490 words)

	Murió William Warfield, famoso por "Ol' Man River"
		NUEVA YORK (dpa).- El barítono bajo estadounidense William Warfield, quien entre otros éxitos se hizo famoso por su interpretación del clásico del teatro musical "Ol' Man River", murió a los 82 años, informó ayer el New York Times.
		Warfield no sólo se convirtió en uno de los intérpretes más elogiados en el papel de Joe en el musical "Showboat", sino que también se destacó como Porgy en numerosas presentaciones de la obra con música de George Gershwin "Porgy and Bess".
		Dentro del repertorio de Warfield se ubican asimismo numerosas obras clásicas y cantatas.
	www.lt24online.com.ar /2002news/08/28d.html (315 words)

	Records for William Warfield : my music & my life. (in MARION) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Records for William Warfield : my music and my life.
		William Warfield : my music and my life.
		William Warfield : my music and my life / William Warfield with Alton Miller.
	library.cerritos.edu /MARION/%2BWILL/2f2020002000/0 (41 words)

	Names Index Page
		Warfield, Albert Gellatin (24 FEB 1817-6 NOV 1891)
		Warfield, Herny Mactier (24 NOV 1825-18 JAN 1885)
		Warfield, Margaret G. Warfield, Margaret Gassaway (28 APR 1858-14 FEB 1923)
	www.ronulrich.com /rfuged/names55.htm (985 words)

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