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Eula Beal (January 25 1919 – July 29 2008) was an American contralto
Contralto

In music, a contralto is a type of European classical music female voice type with a vocal range somewhere between a tenor and a mezzo-soprano. The term is used to refer to the deepest female singing voice....
. She was best known for her starring role in the 1947 movie, Concert Magic opposite Yehudi Menuhin
Yehudi Menuhin

Yehudi Menuhin, Baron Menuhin, Order of Merit, Order of the British Empire was a violinist and conducting who spent most of his performing career in the United Kingdom....
 where she sang music from several Bach cantatas.

Beal was born in Riverside, California
Riverside, California

Riverside is a large city located in the Inland Empire in Southern California. It is also the county seat of Riverside County, California, California, United States....
 and had a career as a concert contralto touring the United States in the 1940s and appeared with several orchestras including the Phoenix Symphony
Phoenix Symphony

The Phoenix Symphony is a major United States symphony orchestra based in Phoenix, Arizona.Founded in 1947 when Phoenix had a population of less than 100,000, the orchestra began as an occasional group of musicians performing a handful of concerts each year....
 and the Los Angeles Philharmonic
Los Angeles Philharmonic

The Los Angeles Philharmonic is an United States orchestra based in Los Angeles, California, California, United States. It has a regular season of concerts from October through June at the Walt Disney Concert Hall, and a summer season at the Hollywood Bowl from July through September....
 with whom she performed Mahler's Eighth Symphony under the direction of Eugene Ormandy
Eugene Ormandy

Eugene Ormandy was a Hungary-United States conducting and violinist....
 at the Hollywood Bowl
Hollywood Bowl

The Hollywood Bowl is a famous modern amphitheatre in the Hollywood area of Los Angeles, California, USA, that is used primarily for music performances....
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Eula Beal (January 25 1919 – July 29 2008) was an American contralto
Contralto

In music, a contralto is a type of European classical music female voice type with a vocal range somewhere between a tenor and a mezzo-soprano. The term is used to refer to the deepest female singing voice....
. She was best known for her starring role in the 1947 movie, Concert Magic opposite Yehudi Menuhin
Yehudi Menuhin

Yehudi Menuhin, Baron Menuhin, Order of Merit, Order of the British Empire was a violinist and conducting who spent most of his performing career in the United Kingdom....
 where she sang music from several Bach cantatas.

Beal was born in Riverside, California
Riverside, California

Riverside is a large city located in the Inland Empire in Southern California. It is also the county seat of Riverside County, California, California, United States....
 and had a career as a concert contralto touring the United States in the 1940s and appeared with several orchestras including the Phoenix Symphony
Phoenix Symphony

The Phoenix Symphony is a major United States symphony orchestra based in Phoenix, Arizona.Founded in 1947 when Phoenix had a population of less than 100,000, the orchestra began as an occasional group of musicians performing a handful of concerts each year....
 and the Los Angeles Philharmonic
Los Angeles Philharmonic

The Los Angeles Philharmonic is an United States orchestra based in Los Angeles, California, California, United States. It has a regular season of concerts from October through June at the Walt Disney Concert Hall, and a summer season at the Hollywood Bowl from July through September....
 with whom she performed Mahler's Eighth Symphony under the direction of Eugene Ormandy
Eugene Ormandy

Eugene Ormandy was a Hungary-United States conducting and violinist....
 at the Hollywood Bowl
Hollywood Bowl

The Hollywood Bowl is a famous modern amphitheatre in the Hollywood area of Los Angeles, California, USA, that is used primarily for music performances....
. Beal also performed Mahler's Kindertotenlieder
Kindertotenlieder

Kindertotenlieder is a song cycle for voice and orchestra by Gustav Mahler. The words of the songs are poems by Friedrich R?ckert.The original Kindertotenlieder were a group of 425 poems written by R?ckert in 1833?34 in an outpouring of grief after two of his children had died in an interval of sixteen days....
 with the Los Angeles Philharmonic.

During the 1948 season she appeared as Erda in Wagner's Siegfried
Siegfried (opera)

Siegfried is the third of the four operas that comprise Der Ring des Nibelungen , by Richard Wagner. It received its premiere at the Bayreuth Festspielhaus on 16 August 1876, as part of the first complete performance of The Ring....
 and the innkeeper in Boris Godunov
Boris Godunov (opera)

Boris Godunov is an opera by Modest Mussorgsky . The work was composed between 1868 and 1874 in Saint Petersburg, Russia. It is Mussorgsky's only completed opera and is considered his masterpiece....
 with the San Francisco Opera
San Francisco Opera

San Francisco Opera is the second largest opera company in North America after the Metropolitan Opera in New York City. It was founded in 1923 by Gaetano Merola ....
. She also sang at Radio City Music Hall
Radio City Music Hall

Radio City Music Hall is an entertainment venue located in New York City's Rockefeller Center. Its nickname is the Showplace of the Nation, and it was for a time the leading tourist destination in the city....
 and the Tanglewood Festival with the Boston Pops.

Beal's full time career lasted only a decade, as she chose to focus on being a wife and mother. She married well known aerial photographer William Garnett
William Garnett

William A. Garnett was an United States landscape photographer who specialized in aerial photography.Garnett was born in Chicago, Illinois, in 1916, and in 1920 his family moved to Pasadena, California, California....
 in 1941 and remained his wife until his death in 2006. She was the mother of their three sons: Bill, Jay and Don. She had three grandchildren: Erin, Nick and Geoff. Throughout her life Beal continued to perform periodically near her home in Northern California. She made appearances with the San Francisco Symphony
San Francisco Symphony

The San Francisco Symphony is a leading orchestra based in San Francisco, California. The current music director is Michael Tilson Thomas, who has held the position since September 1995....
, the Santa Rosa Symphony, and the Napa Symphony. She was also an active singer and soloist in the Napa "Silverado Singers" choral group and sang for many years in the Napa Valley for funerals and churches. She died in Napa, California
Napa, California

Napa is the county seat of Napa County, California, California. It is the principal city of the Napa county Metropolitan Statistical Area, which encompasses Napa county....
 in 2008.

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