Helen Boatwright Dies

Soprano soloist Helen Boatwright, who championed the performance of American song and recorded the first full-length album of songs by composer Charles Ives, has died.

Boatwright celebrated her 94th birthday on Nov. 17. Her family said she was still teaching until three weeks before her death Wednesday, and the final piece of music she listened to was the last soprano aria of Handel's "Messiah."

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Boatwright is survived by two sons and a daughter. The funeral will be held Dec. 8 at at St. David's Episcopal Church in DeWitt, a Syracuse suburb.

Rest In Peace, Helen.