She said didn't realize how good she was until after her retirement, when she finally spent some time listening to her own recordings. She was 45 when this was recorded, and sang beautifully for decades more.
Would you believe that my dad was an IRS agent, and had to audit Eileen and her husband. He said they were so nice about the whole thing (and their tax returns were in tip top shape), and Eileen asked him, when he heard someone tinkling on the piano in another room, “do you want to meet Lenny?” As in Leonard Bernstein.
