I just got a Christmas card from ...

[Lance]

... Dame JOAN SUTHERLAND, postmarked from Australia. I am overwhelmed!

[Agnes Selby]

Here are some Christmas wishes for you also from Australia.
I wish you the very "bestest" for Christmas and a very
happy and healthy New Year. And many thanks for being
such a good friend.

Kind regards,
Agnes.

[Jack Kelso]

...and now mine from Germany and in German to you, Lance---a great "THANK YOU!" for providing us with such a great site to "sound off" and learn new and wonderful things about music and related subjects:

FROHE WEIHNACHTEN und EIN GLÜCKLICHES NEUES JAHR!

I wish you and yours health, happiness, love and success! I'll be back on the 6th of January!

Tschüß!
Jack

[Seán]

Congratulations Lance, recognition indeed and well deserved too. A very Happy Christmas to you and indeed all on CMG and their Families.
I intend on visiting CMG regularly over Christmas (children permitting).

[Chalkperson]

... Dame JOAN SUTHERLAND, postmarked from Australia. I am overwhelmed!

But you took the time and trouble to wish her a speedy recovery, she must have been very touched by your letter...well done, Lance

[Lance]

Yes, I did do that, with a personal note. It's very hard to believe Dame Joan is over 80 now. I remember her so well from the early days of collecting LPs. What a glorious career she has had, and such a down-to-earth person! At least she knows her fans have not forgotten her. And you have a good memory, Sir Chalkie!

... Dame JOAN SUTHERLAND, postmarked from Australia. I am overwhelmed!

But you took the time and trouble to wish her a speedy recovery, she must have been very touched by your letter...well done, Lance

[TopoGigio]

[TopoGigio]

For a while,we were thinking to destroy Snowy...

[TopoGigio]

But you are heere !

[jbuck919]

It is always a pleasure to encounter a famous and admired person who answers her own mail. Way back when I was in college in the 70s my roommate, a classic opera buff, contrived a class assignment so that he would have to contact a number of "women in music." He too got a (handwritten) letter back from Ms. Sutherland, not then Dame Joan.

[Chosen Barley]

Lance, do you mean that she sent you a card "just" because you dropped her a note wishing her a speedy recovery? Or were you acquaintances a long time ago and then lost touch & the get-well letter nudged her memory?

My, she was nice to do that. Many wouldn't, I don't think!

I saw her in recital twice, in the 70s. A helluva voice.

[Chosen Barley]

Topo, I love that antique card from cardcow.com. Here is another neat one I found there.



I guess this is what passed for porn 100 years ago. Thankfully, I never saw my parents behaving that way in the 1950s (I'm from a farm).

[Ralph]

Big deal. I got a Christmas card in today's mail from Pavarotti.

[Chalkperson]

When Martha Stewart was in Prison she sent me a Christmas Card of her front door with this huge Black Wreath on it...she always did have a good sense of humor actually, when John Waters made Serial Mom, a film where a Martha Stewart type woman goes on a killing spree, she coached Kathleen Turner in how act like Martha...we were in Ohio once at a Peony Farm that sold Peony Plants, they had about 120 varieties and Martha was crying, I asked why and she said it was because she could not afford to buy ALL of them...

[Fergus]

Nollaig Shona libh go léir which translates from the Irish language to Happy Christmas to you all

[TopoGigio]

Very Well Chosen'Barley,,,for a Sorotchinsky Fair,new version!

[TopoGigio]

,,,and Joy To Joan !!!

[Reed]

I didn't get a Christmas card from Dame Sutherland, but I did get Christmas fudge from Teddie Kennedy and his wife, Miss Vickie, for some constituent work I did for them last year in my job as Ombudsman for a government agency.