Larry Day

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Dr. Larry Day was, as of 2005, professor emeritus in voice at the University of Arizona. His long and distinguished teaching career included many years at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colorado, where he both taught voice and directed the operas. Dr. Day was a fine bass-baritone soloist and sang throughout the United States. He was especially well-known for his booming high notes and reverent interpretations of Handel's Messiah, Haydn's Creation and the Verdi Requiem as well as many other concert and oratorio works. Day was a student of the famous pedagogue Berton Coffin, and one of the first two recipients of the degree of Doctor of Musical Arts (D.M.A.) at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Notable students of Dr. Day's include Donn Everette Graham and Randie Blooding.