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Thanks to Richard for sending this information.
http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/nytimes/obituary.aspx?page=lifestory&pid=161275307
We both studied with Helen Hodam while at Oberlin. I was blessed to hear Sherry as the alto soloist in a performance of Handel's Messiah with the Canterbury Chorus in New York City a few years before her death.
Rick Reed
Class of 1968
https://www.operanews.com/Opera_News_Magazine/2013/4/Departments/Obituaries.html
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Edna Chun
Sherry, an extremely talented, successful opera singer and a warm and outgoing person. I met her by accident one day on the NY subway. She was as warm and down to earth as can be.
Paul Safyan
Posting this on behalf of Eve Roshevsky
sherry & I both studied with helen hodam and back in NYC we remained friendlY & I took a few lessons from her.
she was going to sing at my wedding in 1986 but went to Germany to sing, instead. i didnt hear anything more about her except that she'd died.
she was a joyful teacher and a dazzling singer. I'll never forget her Katishaw in "mikado" at.Iberlin, when i sang one of the 3 little maids . . .and, more significantly, her Met debut in black negligee (sp?) in "Mahagony"
r.i.p., dear friend and teacher.
Gideon Schein
I studied with Helen myself for 4 years. Heard Sherry often sing in studio recitals and worked with her of course and Janessa not runJoan Andelman
I am certain I saw and heard Sherry at the Metropolitan Opera in the role of Nedda - a major soprano role - in Pagliacci. Also, she was listed in the Met program in the soprano roster. I have been surprised to read about her in alto/contralto roles in Messiah - and as Katisha. She must have had an amazing range. She was spectacular as Nedda.
Gideon Schein
I saw her deveral times at tje Met and we enjoyed dinner after. Her smile and laughter eere simply infectious.