sutherland Posted February 18 Share Posted February 18 For $8,750,000 you can own the SoHo townhouse that was the home of Leontyne Price for several decades. It is located at 9 VanDam Street and has undergone a total gut renovation. Here is the sales ad: 9 Vandam Street | Compass WWW.COMPASS.COM 9 Vandam Street is a townhouse listed for sale at $8,750,000. This is a 5-bed, 5-bath, 4,576 sqft property. Here is the home as it looked a few years ago: Villager and Groundbreaking African American Soprano Leontyne Price - Village Preservation WWW.VILLAGEPRESERVATION.ORG While it is a well-established fact that our neighborhoods have attracted and been home to some of the most groundbreaking artists and art movements of the past... musclestuduws and TruHart1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ nycman Posted February 18 Share Posted February 18 The planned renovation looks beautiful. $8.750 million seems a bit much, since it was listed @ $5 million not that long ago. The location is nice and almost West Village. If I had the $$ I’d take a serious look at it. musclestuduws and MikeBiDude 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ BOZO T CLOWN Posted February 18 Share Posted February 18 Leontyne Price is still alive. She just celebrated her 97th birthday. BTC pubic_assistance, MikeBiDude, + Italiano and 1 other 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sutherland Posted February 19 Author Share Posted February 19 (edited) 12 hours ago, BOZO T CLOWN said: Leontyne Price is still alive. She just celebrated her 97th birthday. BTC Yes, she moved to Maryland a few years ago to be close to her brother George and his family. Edited February 19 by sutherland Marc in Calif 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ Charlie Posted February 19 Share Posted February 19 I used to walk by the house, hoping she would just happen to emerge one day. thomas and Marc in Calif 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sutherland Posted February 19 Author Share Posted February 19 5 hours ago, Charlie said: I used to walk by the house, hoping she would just happen to emerge one day. I have a good friend who lives in Brooklyn. Joan Sutherland, when she was in NYC, used to stay at the huge home of Martin Waldron on Prospect Park West. One day in the 1980s my friend was walking by the house and out emerged Joan Sutherland in an evening gown. The Spirit of Martin Waldron | Operavore | WQXR WWW.WQXR.ORG Blogger Fred Plotkin looks at the legacy of Martin Waldron, an only-in-New York character whose stately Brooklyn townhouse was a haven for opera stars and... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ Charlie Posted February 19 Share Posted February 19 (edited) In the early 1980s we were visiting friends in Geneva, who took us to a favorite restaurant of theirs on a hill above the lake. After lunch, we walked over to the edge of the property and looked down, and John remarked, "Oh. look--there are Joan and Richard in the garden." Sitting in the garden of their chalet were Joan Sutherland and Richard Bonynge. John called out "Joan!" and she looked up and waved back to him. (He knew them, so they weren't offended at being espied.) Edited February 19 by Charlie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rvwnsd Posted February 20 Share Posted February 20 Moderator's Note: Thanks for the walk down memory lane about Joan Sutherland. It must have been an absolute treat to see her. Now, let's walk (or take the subway) back to SoHo and take another look at Leontyne Price's townhome. Maybe someone can go to the open house and report back. If anyone has more Joan Sutherland stories to share, please feel free to start a thread about her. 🙏 + BOZO T CLOWN, + Charlie, musclestuduws and 1 other 2 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pubic_assistance Posted February 26 Share Posted February 26 That's a steep price for an unrenovated townhouse in SOHO. That location on VanDam is an unremarkable block wedged between high rises and lacks the charm of the West Village townhouses to the North. There are multiple listings for renovated homes in that price range. + nycman, thomas, sutherland and 1 other 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ Charlie Posted February 27 Share Posted February 27 21 hours ago, pubic_assistance said: That's a steep price for an unrenovated townhouse in SOHO. That location on VanDam is an unremarkable block wedged between high rises and lacks the charm of the West Village townhouses to the North. There are multiple listings for renovated homes in that price range. I wondered if she bought it before she was a superstar--her first appearance at the Met was at the old opera house on 39th Street. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ BOZO T CLOWN Posted March 2 Share Posted March 2 Leontyne Price appearing as the Mystery Guest on What's My Line in 1966 The panel mistook her for a man for the first half of the segment. BTC pubic_assistance and thomas 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ nycman Posted March 2 Share Posted March 2 4 hours ago, BOZO T CLOWN said: Leontyne Price appearing as the Mystery Guest on What's My Line in 1966 The panel mistook her for a man for the first half of the segment. BTC Her jacket is stunning! When people actually knew the names of Opera stars. + sync, jeezifonly, pubic_assistance and 4 others 3 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ BOZO T CLOWN Posted March 3 Share Posted March 3 The look on Arlene Francis' face when she realized it was Leontyne Price as the Mystery Guest is priceless. BTC pubic_assistance, thomas and rvwnsd 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pubic_assistance Posted March 5 Share Posted March 5 On 3/2/2024 at 1:39 PM, BOZO T CLOWN said: Leontyne Price appearing as the Mystery Guest on What's My Line in 1966 The panel mistook her for a man for the first half of the segment. BTC Wonderful.💗thanks for sharing Walt and + BOZO T CLOWN 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walt Posted March 12 Share Posted March 12 On 2/18/2024 at 3:43 PM, nycman said: The planned renovation looks beautiful. It's always so sad when people take a charming character-laden and unique piece of history and turn it into some sort of generic sterile griege "airspace." How Silicon Valley helps spread the same sterile aesthetic across the world WWW.THEVERGE.COM How Silicon Valley helps spread the same sterile aesthetic across the world Marc in Calif 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ Italiano Posted March 23 Share Posted March 23 On 2/27/2024 at 1:27 PM, Charlie said: I wondered if she bought it before she was a superstar--her first appearance at the Met was at the old opera house on 39th Street. Quite interesting quote in the article: "It is an extraordinary footnote that Ms. Price was able to buy her Greenwich Village townhome in 1961, well before the Fair Housing Act of 1968. The Fair Housing Act prohibited discrimination concerning the sale, rental and financing of housing based on race, religion, national origin or sex." + Charlie 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
musclestuduws Posted March 23 Share Posted March 23 On 3/2/2024 at 6:31 PM, nycman said: Her jacket is stunning! When people actually knew the names of Opera stars. Indeed. Now most people don’t even know what opera itself is or worse, would even care to learn anything about it, which is one more symptom of the irreparable damage that anti-intellectualism has done to this country and to the democratic system upon which it was founded. Ignorance and stupidity run rampant. + BOZO T CLOWN and CastaDiva 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rudynate Posted March 23 Share Posted March 23 On 3/11/2024 at 5:25 PM, Walt said: It's always so sad when people take a charming character-laden and unique piece of history and turn it into some sort of generic sterile griege "airspace." How Silicon Valley helps spread the same sterile aesthetic across the world WWW.THEVERGE.COM How Silicon Valley helps spread the same sterile aesthetic across the world Is it Silicon valley or the post-pandemic aesthetic? I have noticed hotel rooms are invariably painted grey with bare floors, and I attribute it to a desire for the rooms to look "clean" as in literally "clean." Marc in Calif 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rvwnsd Posted March 23 Share Posted March 23 1 hour ago, Rudynate said: Is it Silicon valley or the post-pandemic aesthetic? I have noticed hotel rooms are invariably painted grey with bare floors, and I attribute it to a desire for the rooms to look "clean" as in literally "clean." Good observation, but the trend toward grey, greige, etc. started a couple years prior to the pandemic. However, it might have accelerated that trend's spread. 4 hours ago, Italiano said: Quite interesting quote in the article: "It is an extraordinary footnote that Ms. Price was able to buy her Greenwich Village townhome in 1961, well before the Fair Housing Act of 1968. The Fair Housing Act prohibited discrimination concerning the sale, rental and financing of housing based on race, religion, national origin or sex." I was thinking the same thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ Charlie Posted March 23 Share Posted March 23 (edited) 5 hours ago, Italiano said: Quite interesting quote in the article: "It is an extraordinary footnote that Ms. Price was able to buy her Greenwich Village townhome in 1961, well before the Fair Housing Act of 1968. The Fair Housing Act prohibited discrimination concerning the sale, rental and financing of housing based on race, religion, national origin or sex." Of course, that didn't mean that before the Fair Housing Act it was impossible to sell a house to someone based on their race, etc. The former owner may very well have been pleased to sell the house to a young Black singer who was already in the news as a rising star on the international stage--he may even have been an opera fan. The FHA was passed primarily because of financial institutions that used different criteria for approving loans to certain kinds of buyers, sellers who refused offers based on their own prejudices, and housing associations that had covenants restricting who could buy in. I imagine that in 1961 it wouldn't have been that difficult in Manhattan for someone of Ms. Price's reputation to buy almost anything she could afford. Edited March 23 by Charlie MikeBiDude, musclestuduws, BSR and 2 others 1 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sutherland Posted March 25 Author Share Posted March 25 On 3/23/2024 at 10:31 AM, musclestuduws said: .... one more symptom of the irreparable damage that anti-intellectualism has done to this country and to the democratic system upon which it was founded. Ignorance and stupidity run rampant. I wouldn't say that ignorance and stupidity run rampant. Priorities have (sadly) changed and people no longer seek the beautiful things in life, like art and good music. Civilization will be doomed when the middle class stops putting an emphasis on academic excellence, which has not yet happened. In the mid-20th century, when classical music venues regularly had sold-out performances, a smaller percentage of the audience had attended university. College graduates are a dime a dozen today, but they never attended music history classes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeezifonly Posted March 31 Share Posted March 31 Perhaps it will be known simply as the residence of a ground-breaking 20thC Black Female Artist with a long international career. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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