Loveduet For one Waccabuc couple, a musical passion led to marital bliss Photographs and story by Dana Ramos of two years. “We ran into each other again at a gathering of different choral groups, and by then, we were both available.” And they’ve been together ever since. “Naturally, our wedding featured singing. Actually, you could more accurately describe it as a concert,” Linda says. “We married at John Jay Homestead because it was where we sang our first song together.”
“Naturally, our wedding featured singing. Actually, you could more accurately describe it as a concert. We married at John Jay Homestead because it was where we sang our first song together.”
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They invited 150 people to the wedding-concert and the attendees were entertained not only by the bride and groom but by many other members of the wedding party as well, close friends who shared their musical passion. “I wore a red Italian-silk ball gown,” Linda recalls. “I walked down the aisle tossing out carnations and when I arrived at the front, I sang ‘The Jewel Song’ from the Gounod opera ‘Faust.’” The two-hour production stopped only for 20 minutes so that Linda and Dave could exchange vows. Even though the couple doesn’t earn money singing, it is more than just a hobby. They perform for themselves, in choral organizations and sometimes at nonprofit venues. “We have a professional attitude and a strong work ethic,” Linda says, highlighting how seriously they take their singing. For many years, they focused on opera and other classical music but have expanded their repertoire to include a wide range of styles, including show tunes and modern standards. However apt, it is far too cliché to end by saying that Linda and Dave “make beautiful music together.” Instead, as a coda to this little ditty, let us simply hope and wish for the couple to enjoy a “neverending song” of … happiness. n
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It started with a song. Although that sounds like the title of one, it is how Linda Broudy and Dave Eggers of Waccabuc met in the early 1990s. Most people who hear them could swear they are professional singers, but that isn’t the case. “We are avocational singers, meaning we don’t have union cards and this isn’t how we earn a living,” Linda says of their passion, “although I have performed opera with professionals.” For instance, in 1985, she auditioned for a role in Mozart’s “The Magic Flute,” which was being fully staged by The Little Opera Society in Westchester. “Much to my surprise, I was cast in a starring role,” Linda laughs. She had studied music in college. But it wasn’t her major. And although she knew she could sing, she felt she lacked confidence. “I was shocked when they gave me the role of the Queen of the Night,” she says of the part, which requires both a commanding presence and the capacity for bewitching coloratura. “I performed as a volunteer singer, but there were paid professionals in the production.” Dave was involved with musical theater since high school and earned a bachelor of fine arts in theater and music at Windham College in Vermont. After graduating, he focused on scenic design and worked as a shop foreman for many years. By then, he had a young family and didn’t feel he earned enough money, so he began his own carpentry company and has been remodeling homes for 30 years now. You know you are in the home of a craftsman as soon as you enter. Dave renovated the couple’s 1920s bungalow several years ago, using beautiful quartersawn white oak throughout the kitchen. Other fine details appear throughout the home, which they share with a rescued Greyhound named Burn. Linda holds a day job as an office manager for a small hedge fund in Greenwich. But back to that musical first meeting. “It was at a Bedford choral group called the Random Choristers. I was brought in as a ringer singer for a duet with Dave,” Linda says. Not missing a beat, Dave adds, “At that time, I was a single father raising two young daughters. There was an immediate attraction between us, but we were both involved with other people at the time.” So they sang their song and parted ways. In musical terminology, a “fermata” is a hold of undetermined length. In Dave and Linda’s case, the pause between their first and second meeting was an interval
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