John Stratton (singer)
John Reginald Stratton (born August 1, 1931 in Toronto ) is a Canadian singer, music historian and producer.
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Stratton studied singing in Toronto with Gina Cigna and Aksel Schiøtz and in New York with Florence Easton and Edward Johnson . Between 1967 and 1974 he recorded three LPs with songs, excerpts from operas and church music on the Cantilena label . In 1968 he gave the opening lecture for the inauguration of the new quarters of the British Institute of Recorded Sound . He is a specialist in the history of music recording and has written articles about it for the Record Collector and the Journal of the British Institute of Recorded Sound (Operatic singing style and the gramophone) . In 1982 he released 46 LPs with historical recordings from his teachers Florence Easton and Edward Johnson, among others. He is particularly interested in the Mapleson Cylinders , a collection of more than 100 phonographic cylinders that Lionel Mapleson recorded during performances at the Metropolitan Opera between 1901 and 1903 . He was nominated for a Grammy in 1986 for his work on this, which appeared in the Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives at Lincoln Center . From 1971 to 1991 Stratton taught at the Ryerson Polytechnical Institute in Toronto.
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| SURNAME | Stratton, John |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Stratton, John Reginald (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian singer, music historian and producer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 1, 1931 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Toronto |