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Musical childhood a high note.(Arts & Culture)
Byline: David Steinberg Journal Staff Writer
* Santa Fe Opera general director's experience accompanying family, friends laid foundation for career
SANTA FE In the late 1940s, Thomas Gaddes sang in the Wallsend Male Voice Choir. His wife, Emily, sang in various mixed choirs in the town in the north of England.
By the time he was 8, their youngest son, Richard, was playing piano, accompanying his father and Sunday evening dinner guests who sang at their home for fun.
"I was a good sight reader so we would often have musical dinners. That was how we entertained ourselves," said Gaddes. "Wallsend is a small town in Northumberland where music was a strong tradition."
Gaddes has come a long way from the domestic pleasures of accompanying family and friends, yet those evenings laid part of the foundation for his appreciation of music.
He is now shepherding into the new millennium an internationally respected summer festival with a strong musical tradition of its own: Beginning June 29, Gaddes will present his first season as the general director of the Santa Fe Opera.
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