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Barbara Cook in concert at Carnegie Hall in 2006.
Richard Termine for The New York Times; Sara Krulwich/The New York Times, 2010
Barbara Cook
Died on August 8, 2017 at age 89
Ms. Cook was a lyric soprano whose rousing songs and romantic ballads touched America’s heart in an odyssey that began in the golden age of Broadway musicals, overcame alcoholism, depression and obesity, and forged a second life in cabarets and concert halls.
Notable Deaths 2017
Remembering Mary Tyler Moore, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lewis, David Rockefeller, Trisha Brown, Glen Campbell, Dick Gregory, Edith Windsor, Sam Shepard, Tom Petty and many others who died this year.