Daniel Sullivan and Meg Sullivan
Recorded
July 8, 2016
Archived
July 8, 2016
40:31 minutes
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Id:
mby015085
Description
Opera singer, Dan Sullivan (76) speaks to his daughter, Meg Sullivan (37), about growing up on a small family farm in Arizona, touring the world through his career as an opera singer, and living with cancer for the past 10 years.Subject Log / Time Code
Dan Sullivan (DS) talks about how he got his musical education in bands at school and from his musical parents at home.
DS talks about how he would go to two different churches ever Sunday: Catholic church with his dad and Presbyterian church with his mom.
DS talks about how he used to get lost in the corn fields as a child.
Meg Sullivan (MS) talks about how DS has taught her that everything is fixable.
DS talks about how he learned to use electronics from having an amateur radio station on the farm, and that caused him to want to be an electronic engineer.
DS remembers some of the high points of his career as an opera singer.
DS tells a story from when MS was a baby, and her mother left her back stage at an opera with a dresser and found her after the show alone in a box in a closet.
DS talks about becoming a part of the United States army chorus and band during the Vietnam War.
DS talks about living in Washington DC from 1966-1969 during a critical point in history and the Civil Rights Movement.
DS talks about living with cancer, Multiple Myeloma, since 2006.
MS talks about how DS's cancer has impacted her.
Participants
- Daniel Sullivan
- Meg Sullivan