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1943
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2017
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Ella Flannagan
October 4, 2024
Robert was very outstanding musically and as a classmate at Hamilton High School. Ella Ingram Flannagan
Ella Flannagan
October 4, 2023
I will always remember Robert. He was an amazing person. Ella Ingram Flannagan
July 29, 2018
Thank-you for the voice lessons, and for your musical/personal integrity. Our days together at the Community Music Centre of Boston made an indelible impression on my approach to making music. Christopher Robertson
Jerome Wright
January 11, 2018
Why his great voice was denied an annual place on the MET roster is frankly beyond me....
Rest in peace Bob.
Jerome Wright
Clyde BATTLES
October 25, 2017
RIP My Home Boy(smiles). My mother and your mother knew each other un known to you and me. My mom spoke of you to her and vice versa. I remember good times in Boston with Sarah Caldwell and at NEC and BU. I will never forget you and the wonderful voice you were given from God and the Muses. Rest in peace my brother. Enjoy your rest!
October 24, 2017
Noriko,
I am saddened by the news of Robert's death. My thoughts, love and prayers are with you. We at the Community Church were so lucky to have him perform for us.
Love,
Lynne Maguire
Roberta Gilbert
October 23, 2017
I am shocked and saddened to hear of Bob's death. My condolences to his wife and family. He was a wonderful person, colleague, and musician, with a stunningly beautiful voice. We shared many an opera and concert hall stage, and I will miss him dearly.
Veronique-Anne Epiter
October 17, 2017
The passing of Robert Honeysucker is a great loss for the music world, and I received the news with deep sadness. I am grateful that such a gift from above as his voice, doesn't end with one's life, but remains in our realm as a legacy for all to enjoy, learn from and grow spiritually. Such gift becomes our connection to the Divine.
Though Mr. Honeysucker was not directly my teacher, I received wonderful feedback and encouragement from him as a Voice Jury at the Boston Conservatory, and valued his opinion because he was such a great singer. I always kept his handwritten comments so I could read them again and again. It is an inspiration to feel appreciated by someone whom you respect so much. My condolences to his family and all who knew him. May he rest in Peace.
Wrensey and Eddye Gill
October 15, 2017
We were so privileged to have known such a special person as Robert. As high school classmates, we knew Robert to be an extremely gifted individual. Not only did God gift him with a phenomenal voice, He blessed him with a beautiful personality. Even though we are in Tennessee, we were kept abreast of most of his performances because we wanted to know what our friend was doing!
We know that Robert will join God's heavenly choir, but his legacy will live on in our hearts.
Our prayers will continue to be with the family and with the community in which Robert diligently served.
Our love,
Wrensey and Eddye Gill
Ella Flannagan
October 14, 2017
Robert, a truly gifted individual
Lois Josimovich
October 14, 2017
As members of the Cambridge Community Chorus, we had the privilege of singing with Robert Honeysucker a number of times. He was not only an exceptional singer, but also a very nice person. We will all miss him on stage and in our community. Sending condolences and good wishes to his family.
ronald campbell
October 13, 2017
what a artist may god rest his soul
Bijoy Misra
October 13, 2017
I met Bob through my son in who was a student to him in Longy School of Music. A thorough professional and a gentleman, Bob was a teacher-performer. The sonority of his voice attracted me and I attended as many local performances as I could. He was kind, inquisitive and always dignifying. His rendering of Martin Luther King's speech with the Boston Lyric Opera would be etched in me for ever. On behalf of my family, I offer my condolences to his wife and to his family on his untimely demise. Angels live on earth for ever! I hear his voice from the back of the Hall!
Sondra Kelly
October 13, 2017
He surely will be missed. My thoughts and prayers are with you, Noriko.In sympathy, Sondra Kelly
Hamilton High School Class of 1960
October 13, 2017
We were so sadden to have heard about our Robert's passing. "Mr. Baritone", as we fondly called him was such a gift from God. During our four years of high school, he was one of the most likeable guys in our class. When we were together for our 50th and 52nd high school reunion, Robert sang a couple of Negro spirituals at the gathering and mesmerized all of us! We had forgotten how great the gift was that God had given him.
He will be missed by us all. We lost a friend, but God gained an angel.
Our love and prayers are with the family.
Hamilton High School Class of 1960
Memphis, TN
Mary Brown-Jones
October 12, 2017
Thank you, Robert Honeysucker, for instructing me in the art of vocal performance when I was 13 years old at the Community Music Center of Boston in the late 60's. Your voice was incredibly beautiful. My heart goes out to your family at this time of loss.
Alison S
October 12, 2017
My heart became heavy when I found out that the world lost such an inspiring artist. I had the honor of meeting Robert when he came to Salem State. I asked him what the most valuable piece of advice he had ever recieved was, and he said that it was to play every song as the composer intended. I will carry that with me for the rest of my career as a musician. Robert, it was magical meeting you, and witnessing you and your wife performing together. Thank you for the wisdom. "Ride on King Jesus, ride on / No man can-a hinder me."
Mark Dooley
October 12, 2017
It was a privilege to sing on the same stage as Robert several times as a member of Masterworks Chorale and Boston Cecilia. He was a wonderful singer and musician, and to my mind the best Elijah ever! He will be missed.
Jan Opalach
October 12, 2017
sending sincere condolences to family, friends, colleagues and students. Jan Opalach, Prof. of Voice @ Eastman School of Music
Jodi Nichols
October 11, 2017
It was always a privilege to sing in Quincy Choral Society when Robert Honeysucker was our soloist. His fabulous voice, professionalism, friendliness and complete lack of ego always made singers work harder. He sang Felix Mendelsshon's "Elijah" and owned the role! Heaven's choir now has a new, and fantastic, soloist and they are rejoicing. We on earth are saddened by this great man's passing. Rest In Peace, Robert.❤
Esther Rupp
October 11, 2017
I had the pleasure of knowing Bob at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. I feel painful irony that what comes to my mind's ear is Bob's singing along with the jukebox, "Tracks of Our Tears." My tears well up as I type.
His voice has always been of the angels. The Heavenly Chorus has grown by one.
Geraldine Barretto-Sims
October 11, 2017
A first rate artist and colleague of mine for many years. Next "gig" now singing with the heavenly choir with that beautiful voice doing all the baritone solos. God Bless and rest easy my friend.
Nick G
October 11, 2017
I was deeply saddened to hear of Robert's passing. We had the pleasure of hosting Robert here at Salem State several times, and it was always an amazing experience. His work with our students was incredible to see and a testament to the human being he was: always giving, always kind, and always nurturing. He will be sorely missed and the world is a little emptier without him in it.
Priscilla Stevens, Concord Chorus
October 11, 2017
We, in the Concord Chorus, considered Robert a member of our extended family. He sang with us on many occasions and was scheduled to sing with us again in the Spring of 2018. We are devastated by the loss of such a wonderful man, and by the stilling of such a sublime voice. We hope that his family and friends can find comfort in the knowledge that he brought joy and music to so many people and touched so many hearts. --Priscilla Stevens, Chair, Concord Chorus
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