Todd Krieger » Music http://toddkrieger.com Welcome to Hi-Tek Communications, a T.E.Krieger Production. Thu, 22 Jul 2010 20:54:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 An Opera Singer Breathes Anew http://toddkrieger.com/an-opera-singer-breathes-anew/ http://toddkrieger.com/an-opera-singer-breathes-anew/#comments Thu, 16 Jul 2009 06:45:52 +0000 admin http://toddkrieger.com/?p=154 This past Thursday I flew to San Francisco with Ms. Jacquelyn Richey to see my brother-in-law accept his appointment as a chair in Thoracic Oncology at UCSF. Alongside the professional and personal honorifics bestowed on Dr. Thierry Jahan there was genuine love, admiration and respect all on ample display. And just when a sublime evening seemingly could not get better – the Mezzo-Soprano Zheng Cao came forward to give a surprise performance.

What is remarkable, notable and other-worldly about this performance, aside from it happening to fall on her birthday, is that Ms. Cao’s vocal pyrotechnics were made possible due to her being treated by Dr. David Larson using a technique called the cyberknife, something that is so impossibly sci-fi as to not be believed. But, the point being that between the two of these doctors they saved this woman’s vocal chords. And by saving her vocal chords – we all get to hear this…

Happy Birthday Zheng!

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