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Blake Stern

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Blake Stern (June 25, 1917 – December 22, 1987) was an American tenor, best known as an oratorio singer, and a professor emeritus of music at Yale University, where he taught voice.

He was born in Logan, Iowa. A graduate of Grinnell College in 1940,[1] he was an intelligence officer in the US Navy during World War II. After the war, he enrolled at Juilliard School in New York City before becoming a teacher at the Yale faculty for 32 years.[2] One of his pupils was tenor John Stewart. During his career he performed at venues such as Carnegie Hall and toured the world.

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  1. ^ "Biographical Sketch". Yale University. Archived from the original on 13 December 2019. Retrieved 23 November 2011.
  2. ^ "Blake Stern, Singer and Teacher, 70". The New York Times. 24 December 2011. Retrieved 23 November 2011.