Mr. Dane was a pupil of the once highest paid conductor in America, Stephen Townsend, Conductor of the Boston Symphony. He participated with a number of famed teachers and scientists in studies of Voice Production according to the Caruso Method which was his theory in teaching.
Flora Palumbo, of Nahant, was a student of George Dane. She was considerably younger but he fell in love with her, and vice versa. She was preparing with a Dr. Bell for the role of Aida in the Met when Mr. Dane swept her off her feet to Fort Lauderdale in 1959. I was six then. The Danes settled less than one mile from where I lived, but I did not meet them until I began to study voice 16 years later.
Mrs. Dane began singing in churches around the age of sixteen. She was very sought after by both Catholic churches and the Christian Scientist Church for her ability to spiritually transport the congregation with sacred music. To thousands of pupils and singers throughout her life she was Mother and Teacher and Diva, bringing out the best in everyone without the first criticism, but through example and patience. She cured stutters and helped many overcome impediments and handicaps as well as to become good singers, and to attain their beautiful voices, Simon.
Mr. Dane in his later years fretted he had "stolen her from a great career," but she would not have had it any other way.
Mrs. Dane continued to teach until the age of 92.
One of the Florida Dane Studio pupils, Paige O'Hara, sang the role of Belle in Walt Disney's Sleeping Beauty.
