The former Ramey Air Force Base in Aguadilla has been closed for decades, and no other Air Force Bases or Naval Air Stations remain.

The Royal Opera in London has only given one performance of the opera, a concert version in March 1998 at the Barbican Centre, with Samuel Ramey as the title character.

The airport has been long associated with the adjacent military base, Ramey Air Force Base.

In the bel canto repertoire, Ramey has excelled in Mozart's Don Giovanni and The Marriage of Figaro and in Rossini's Semiramide, The Barber of Seville, Il Turco in Italia, L ' italiana in Algeri, and La Gazza Ladra ; in Donizetti's Anna Bolena and Lucia di Lammermoor and Bellini's I puritani.

In the dramatic repertoire, Ramey has been acclaimed for his " Three Devils ": Boito's Mefistofele, Gounod's Faust, and Berlioz's The Damnation of Faust

Ramey lives in Glenview, Illinois and has participated in some 70 performances a year.

During its nearly 70 year history, the NYCO has helped launch the careers of many great opera singers including Beverly Sills, Sherrill Milnes, Plácido Domingo, Carol Vaness, José Carreras, Shirley Verrett, Tatiana Troyanos, Jerry Hadley, Catherine Malfitano, Bejun Mehta, Samuel Ramey, and Gianna Rolandi.

Since 1926, the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir has made or been featured in 20 recordings, the most popular being Handel ’ s Messiah with Kathleen Battle, Florence Quivar, John Aler, Samuel Ramey and the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of Sir Andrew Davis ( 1987 ).

In January 1984, Ramey made his debut at the Metropolitan Opera in Handel's Rinaldo.

A studio cast recording of the musical was made in 1991 starring Samuel Ramey, Ruth Ann Swenson, Jerry Hadley, Dom DeLuise, Mandy Patinkin, and Julia Migenes.

Ramey had a tunnel made nearly into the north face of the mound, but it revealed nothing of historic interest.

From 1981 onwards the role of Atilla was taken up by the American bass, Samuel Ramey, who made his first appearances at the New York City Opera in March 1981 in the opera which had not been seen in the city for one hundred and fifty years.

On or about the year 1856, one John Ramey, a prosperous farmer, who owned a large farm which at this time is owned by Cal Potter, built a small store house on the lot now ( 1932 ) owned and occupied by the Farmers Exchange, became the first merchant of Fair Grove.

The large berries have an oval shape with what Bern Ramey describes as " a dull purplish-red with a lilac-colored bloom ".

A number of previously obscure operas with strong bass / bass-baritone roles have been revived solely for Ramey, such as Verdi's Attila, Rossini's Maometto II and Massenet's Don Quichotte.

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In January 1956 he recorded two Granz-produced sessions featuring pianist Teddy Wilson ( who had led the Billie Holiday recordings with Young in the 1930s ), trumpet player Roy Eldridge, trombonist Vic Dickenson, bassist Gene Ramey, and drummer Jo Jones-available on the Jazz Giants ' 56 and Prez and Teddy albums.

The largest of these installations were the former Roosevelt Roads Naval Station in Ceiba, the Roosevelt Roads Naval Station, and the Atlantic Fleet Weapons Training Facility ( AFWTF ) on Vieques ( all now closed ), the National Guard training facility at Camp Santiago in Salinas, the Army's Fort Buchanan in San Juan, the former U. S. Air Force Ramey Air Force Base in Aguadilla, and the Puerto Rico Air National Guard at Muñiz Air Force base in San Juan.

Roger Ramey sent the demo tape out to every major label in Nashville, and was met with a solid wall of rejection by them all.

Samuel Edward Ramey ( born March 28, 1942 in Colby, Kansas ) is an American operatic bass with a long, distinguished career.

I Lombardi was given its first performances as part of the Metropolitan Opera's 1993 / 94 season with Luciano Pavarotti, Aprile Millo, and Samuel Ramey in some of the major roles.

Elsewhere in 1988, Anderson focused on Rossini roles: playing her first Armida in Aix-en-Provence, appearing in Otello at the Pesaro Festival, and debuting as Anna in Maometto II ( an early version of Rossini's Le siège de Corinthe ) at the San Francisco Opera ( she had previously recorded this work with Samuel Ramey in 1983 ).

On her mother's side, she is related to country singer Patty Loveless ( née Patricia Ramey ), as well as Venus Ramey ( Miss America, 1944 ).

Traveling with Dottie and Roger to Fort Knox in 1969, and hearing her sister perform on stage, Patty Ramey decided that she would like to become a performer as well.

In 1996, Ramey gave a concert at New York's Avery Fisher Hall titled " A Date with the Devil " in which he sang 14 arias representing the core of this repertoire, and he continues to tour this program throughout the world.

Since 1944 he has also conducted regularly at the San Francisco Opera, where he made his debut with a memorable performance of Verdi's Falstaff.

The modern Negro has not made a decisive debut into Southern fiction.

Not a single Southern author, major or minor, has made the urban problems of an urban South his primary source material.

He has made it his, and his it remains, irrevocably.

Mr. Nikolais has made a distinctive contribution to the arts of costume and decor.

But it has been during the last two centuries, during the scientific revolution, that our independence from the physical environment has made the most rapid strides.

Civilization is what man has made of himself.

It is to say rather, I believe, that he has brought to bear on the history, the traditions, and the lore of his region a critical, skeptical mind -- the same mind which has made of him an inveterate experimenter in literary form and technique.

A useful comment on his relation to his region may be made, I think, by noting briefly how in handling Southern materials and Southern problems he has deviated from the pattern set by other Southern authors while remaining faithful to the essential character of the region.

Carl has been married to Paula for fifty-three years, and he has not made a single major decision without careful consideration and thorough discussion with his wife.

We note that, first, America has already made great contributions in the past two years to the world's fund of knowledge of astrophysics and space science.

Steele first answers briefly the charges which his `` dear old Friend '' has made about his pamphlet on Dunkirk and his Crisis.

Certainly one of the most important comments that can be made upon the spiritual and cultural life of any period of Western civilization during the past sixteen or seventeen centuries has to do with the way in which its leaders have read and interpreted the Bible.

In any case, she told Thompson that she saw no reason why he might not see Katie again, `` now that this frank explanation has been made & no one can misunderstand ''.

The publication of Father Connolly's The Man Has Wings has made more of the group available in print so that a general picture of what it contained can now be had without difficulty.

Georgia has made some reforms, true.

This tends to create friction and confusion and has not made it easier for Secretary Rusk to restore vigor and initiative among his subordinates.

But preservation of the natural beauty of the Cape is of more than regional concern, for the automobile age has made it the recreation spot of people from all over the country.

Toys he has can be made to act as substitutes for family temptations such as refrigerator and gas stove.

If this capacity had not failed them, they would see that their enemy has made a disastrous miscalculation.

But to imitate an opponent when he has made the mistake of his life would be a new high in statesmanlike folly.

But more than one conscientious researcher has been inhibited from completely frank discussion of the available evidence by the less excusable fact that fallout has been made a political issue as well as a scientific problem.