Janet Baker
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"Dame Janet Abbott Baker", Order of the Companions of Honour/CH, Order of the British Empire/DBE, Royal Society of Arts/FRSA is an English mezzo-soprano best known as an opera, concert, and lieder singer.

She was particularly closely associated with baroque and early Italian opera and the works of Benjamin Britten. During her career, which spanned the 1950s to the 1980s, she was considered an outstanding singing actress and widely admired for her dramatic intensity, perhaps best represented in her famous portrayal as Dido, Queen of Carthage/Dido, the tragic heroine of Hector Berlioz/Berlioz's magnum opus, Les Troyens. As a concert performer, Dame Janet was noted for her interpretations of the music of Gustav Mahler and Edward Elgar. David Gutman, writing in Gramophone (magazine)/Gramophone, described her performance of Mahler's Kindertotenlieder as "intimate, almost self-communing."

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He never let up for a minute in rehearsal, he never let anything go.

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I still call it just to hear her voice, ... We will never see her beautiful smile again, never hear her wonderful laugh. I hope Hillary doesn't miss me as much as I miss her.

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I walked out of Rite Aid the other night and the smell almost took my breath away.

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Remove alcohol from that evening, and you end up with everyone making their way home that night, uninjured and alive.

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I have two students, one from Japan and one from Hong Kong. (Students) pay their way to Kansas City and back but while they are here they don't need money. Everything is provided by the host family.

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[While digital speech is sounding better, it still has a way to go, industry experts acknowledge.] Speech technology is not perfect, not by a long shot, ... The fact is, speech recognizers are not as good as humans, and they'll never be.

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Hillary always had a mind of her own, ... Hillary had a passion for life. Hillary's future was very promising. It was almost a sure thing - until May 16, 2004.

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We were supposed to go to the dinosaur museum in Hays but it snowed. I think we (adults) were more disappointed than the kids.

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Speech technology is not perfect, not by a long shot. The fact is, speech recognizers are not as good as humans, and they'll never be.

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