Blake Stern

{{Short description|American tenor}} '''Blake Stern''' (June 25, 1917 – December 22, 1987) was an American tenor, best known as an oratorio singer, and a professor emeritus of music at Yale University, where he taught voice.

He was born in Logan, Iowa. A graduate of Grinnell College in 1940,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://drs.library.yale.edu:8083/fedora/get/music:misc.0307/PDF|title=Biographical Sketch|publisher=Yale University|accessdate=23 November 2011|archive-date=13 December 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191213231259/http://drs.library.yale.edu:8083/fedora/get/music:misc.0307/PDF|url-status=dead}}</ref> he was an intelligence officer in the US Navy during World War II. After the war, he enrolled at Juilliard School in New York City before becoming a teacher at the Yale faculty for 32 years.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1987/12/24/obituaries/blake-stern-singer-and-teacher-70.html|title=Blake Stern, Singer and Teacher, 70|work=The New York Times|date=24 December 2011|accessdate=23 November 2011}}</ref> One of his pupils was tenor John Stewart. During his career he performed at venues such as Carnegie Hall and toured the world.

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