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- Miller, Richard Dean
died May 5, 2009, in Oberlin, Ohio. He was born April 9, 1926, in Canton, the youngest child of Clarence and Alice Miller. His sister, Dorothy Maciag, and his brother Joe Miller predeceased him, as did his brother, Carl Miller, who died in an Air Force plane crash during WWII. His surviving brother, Ned Wilfred Miller, lives in Canton. Richard Miller began singing publicly at age three. Before his voice changed, at age 11, he sang hundreds of times in the Canton area. Advised not to sing during the voice-change period, he studied piano, cello, and organ, but returned to singing in musicals at Lincoln High. He was drafted upon graduation from Lincoln High in 1944, assigned to the 7th Armored Division tank corps and sent to the European theater in January of 1945, attached to the British First Army. Stationed near Marseilles after the war, he took voice lessons at the Marseilles Conservatory. After receiving his M.Mus. degree in Musicology from the University of Michigan, he was awarded a Fulbright Grant to study voice in Rome, Italy, at L'Accademia di Santa Cecilia. He later sang for four years as leading lyric tenor at the opera house in Zürich, Switzerland. He returned to the U.S. in 1957, and taught singing at the University of Michigan for five years, then at Oberlin Conservatory for over 40 years. During those years, until age 60, he sang hundreds of performances of oratorio and opera, including appearances with the San Francisco and San Antonio Operas. He sang often with the Cleveland Orchestra under George Szell, Pierre Boulez, and Louis Lane, including the summer promenade concerts and all five of the Cleveland Orchestra's Lake Erie Opera seasons at Severance Hall. He became internationally known for his abilities as a teacher of singing; for many years he gave teaching sessions all over North America, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand. He was decorated by the French government in 1990 as Chevalier/Officier in L'ordre des arts et des lettres. He authored eight books on the subject of singing. In 1989 he received an honorary doctorate from Gustavus Adolphus College. In addition to his brother Ned, he is survived by Mary, whom he married on June 17, 1950, and by their five children: Alyce of Bloomington, Indiana; Mark of Greenbelt, Maryland; Letitia of Frankfort, Kentucky; Anton of New York City; and Nathaniel of Kent, Ohio; and by his granddaughter, Oona Hanson of Los Angeles, and two great-grandchildren, Gwendolyn and Harris
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1926 - 2009 (83 years)
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