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"We choose [these things], not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win" - John F. Kennedy
I remember something I read, once, in Opera News about the great Tatiana Troyanos. Here was a woman that had every right to complain at the Fates over her lot in life...she was abandoned by her parents to an orphanage, and she battled health issues for many years before dying of cancer at 55. (I remember reading that selfsame article about her and being amazed at what she had overcome.) And yet she remained ever gracious in her career and her professional dealings. The writer of the article, I remember, recalled assisting in a Metropolitan Opera performance of Giulio Cesare in Egitto, in which Kathleen Battle was singing. Battle was then in the throes of some of her worst behavior, and she was really letting people have it over trivial matters. And the writer said that when the curtain fell, he was about ready to tell her off, when he felt a tug at his elbow. It was Troyanos - she took him aside, smiled, and said, "Don't. It doesn't matter."
It can be so tempting to get wound up over the least little thing around here. But every time I do, somewhere in the dark recesses of my mind...so deep that I
feel her presence rather than hear it...I'm sure Troyanos is reminding me, too: "It doesn't matter." If she, with all that she overcame, could say it, then I damn well can, too –
Ser Amantio di Nicolao"What is history but a fable agreed upon?" --
Napoleon
Born, raised, and still living in New York City.
Music is my avocation, my hobby, and my profession. I'm a music librarian at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.
Conflict of Interest Statement
I, Kosboot, am an employee of the New York Public Library, a non profit library dedicated to serving the New York City and global communities, and helping to provide broad access to library resources. I will not make any edits that would not be beneficial to the goals of Wikipedia.
While my editing is sort of all over the map, I do like to improve access to important, free, scholarly sources held in libraries and archives.
I do, from time to time, insert links or create articles based on library resources.
I will modify my editing behavior based on problems cited by other editors or if my editing conflicts with other Wikipedia guidelines. I ask that other editors do not hesitate to contact me, via my user talk page, if I appear to be going against this declaration. kosboot (talk) 22:07, 27 June 2014 (UTC)
