1.   Lieberson gives Lakshmi some tortured vocal lines, but the fine soprano Clare Gormley sang them gamely.

2.   One of his favorite things was listening to her sing Mozart for him alone in her fine soprano.

3.   She shaped the deceptively simple melody of the gentle Larghetto movement with the supple phrasing of a fine Mozart soprano.

4.   She studied ballet for two years, then turned to voice lessons and soon earned a reputation as a fine operatic soprano, sought after by opera companies.