Maureen Forrester
Maureen Forrester
Maureen Kathleen Stewart Forrester, CC OQwas a Canadian operatic contralto...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionMusician
Date of Birth25 July 1930
CountryCanada
chance coming explore follow giving happens happy people talent watching
I'm happy to see her coming back, ... She's what the whole show should be about, giving people a chance and watching what happens when young people explore their talent and try to follow their dream.
christian baseball mother
When I started to sing, my mother would have me engaged to perform at the Women's Christian Temperance Union national or annual meetings. I would hate doing this because I wanted to play baseball or go off skiing.
mistake bed-of-roses people
Young people can get very discouraged and get hooked on drugs or on alcohol because of problems they perceive as insurmountable. It is important that they realize a mistake need not ruin their future, but they must also know that not everything in life is a bed of roses.
graduation new-york school
I thought I should go to New York because it was the place to go to study. I went and tried to get an application from the Juilliard School but they wouldn't even give me one because I didn't have my high school graduation.
beautiful people singing
Singing beautiful melodies is one thing, but to deliver the text so that the people understand it, even in a foreign language, has to be worked at very hard.
careers years world
After Bruno Walter, my career went in leaps and bounds. I have had 35 years of a career that is just incredible, and a wonderful time all over the world.
simple people world
I have been all over the world. I have met some wonderful people, lots of them very simple, whom nobody will ever hear about, but who have been fabulous to me.
mother children lovely-voice
My mother was a wonderful, wonderful woman with a lovely voice who hated housework, hated cooking even more and loved her children. She was always arranging church activities such as a bazaar.
grandchildren three
I have three grandchildren and am hoping for 20.
canada life-happens turns
Another turn in my life happened when I took on the Canada Council.
mother waiting four
By the time I was four, I would walk around the corner and wait at a local streetcar stop, get on the streetcar with somebody who looked like they could be my mother and go to the end of the line.
years childhood wonderful
I had a wonderful childhood, but I was a wanderer from year one.
husband children good-friend
I have had five phenomenal children, a great husband and, even though we are separated, we are good friends.
class born middle
I was born in Montreal and came from a lower-middle-class family.