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We looked forward to our 18th anniversary on August 16th — we made great plans for the future. Then, two years to the very day after his first coronary, Peter suffered another heart attack just before last
Christmas. Again he seemed to be rallying, when quite suddenly in the early afternoon of March
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Greevy chose to live in her native Dublin throughout her career rather than be based in one of the world's major music centres. She maintained confidently that "if you're good enough you can live where you like". Nevertheless, this decision undoubtedly curtailed her opportunities in the recording
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of Greevy's recording of Handel arias stated: "The voice has the firm, compact resonance of a true contralto. She has endless breath and can move her voice with agility and precision."
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