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Face to face: Lili Chookasian and Ewa Podles.(Brief Article)(Interview)
These days, genuine contraltos seem to have gone the way of girdles, malt shops and rotary phones. Whether due to changes in taste, style, genetics or the music industry, this rare bird is verging on extinction. So it was doubly thrilling to unite Lili Chookasian, the Met's reigning contralto of the 1960s, '70s, and '80s, with golden-age-throwback phenomenon Ewa Podles. On a Monday morning this past November, Chookasian came to New York from New Haven, where she is now a professor at Yale University, to meet Podles, whose Lincoln Center recital the afternoon before yielded a knockout rave review in The New York Times.
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