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- Oct. 25, 1993: Died:Jess Thomas
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- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Oct. 25, 1993 All The Rage:Angry Young Rockers
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- <source>Time Magazine</source>
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- MILESTONES, Page 25
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- <p> DIED. JESS THOMAS, 66, tenor; from a heart attack; in San Francisco.
- At 6 ft. 3 in. with a solid, profoundly expressive tenor, Thomas
- was truly a born Wagnerian hero. Raised in South Dakota and
- a student of child psychology before devoting himself to a musical
- career, he debuted at the Metropolitan Opera in 1962 as Walther
- in Die Meistersinger. With a repertoire encompassing virtually
- every heldentenor role composed by Wagner, Thomas went on to
- become that rarity of the '60s and '70s--a singer whose vocal
- and dramatic power could match that of the great heroic soprano
- of the era, Birgit Nilsson.
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