{"id":1384458,"date":"2022-03-16T10:51:06","date_gmt":"2022-03-16T14:51:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1384458"},"modified":"2022-03-16T15:06:29","modified_gmt":"2022-03-16T19:06:29","slug":"vocal-teacher-who-taught-blondies-debbie-harry-dies-after-manhattan-attacker-shoves-her-to-ground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/vocal-teacher-who-taught-blondies-debbie-harry-dies-after-manhattan-attacker-shoves-her-to-ground\/","title":{"rendered":"Vocal Teacher Who Taught Blondie\u2019s Debbie Harry Dies After Manhattan Attacker Shoves Her To Ground"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fvocal-teacher-who-taught-blondies-debbie-harry-dies-after-manhattan-attacker-shoves-her-to-ground%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1384458&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/03\/GettyImages-100617525.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>On Tuesday, an 87-year-old female singing coach who counted among her students Blondie singer Debbie Harry and the cast of the 2019 Broadway revival of the musical \u201cOklahoma!\u201d died in a New York hospital five days after being shoved to the pavement during an unprovoked attack in Manhattan.<\/p>\n<p>Barbara Maier Gustern was traveling to watch a student to perform at Joe\u2019s Pub when she was pushed from behind by a 30-ish red-haired woman in front of her building at West 28th Street and Eighth Avenue in Chelsea.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday morning, her grandson posted on Gustern\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/barbara.gustern\/posts\/10164020117683084\">Facebook<\/a> page, \u201cToday, at 11:15 AM, we have lost one of the brightest little flames to ever grace this world. \u2018I ask that you all give me a little time and space, but I want to make time for anyone and everyone who wants to know more about her final moments.\u00a0\u2026 Bobbob, I love you, you are and always will be my heart.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSurveillance footage released Sunday shows the suspect leaving the scene towards Ninth Avenue. She is described as a red-haired woman, likely in her 30s, wearing a black jacket, black leggings, a white skirt and dark colored shoes.\u00a0She has not been caught,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-10616751\/Broadway-coach-87-pushed-unprovoked-attack-near-subway-station-Manhattan-died.html\">The Daily Mail<\/a> noted.<\/p>\n<p>After she was struck and lying on the ground with a gash in her head, Gustern told a friend, \u201cI\u2019ve never been hit so hard in my life.\u201d\u00a0\u201cMs. Gustern gave the police a description of her attacker and said that the woman shouted a derogatory term before assaulting her,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/03\/13\/nyregion\/barbara-maier-gustern-voice-coach-attack.html\">The New York Times<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>While Gustern was in the hospital, Mallory Portnoy, who appeared in the \u201cOklahoma!\u201d revival and had been coached by Gustern, said, \u201cI don\u2019t know how people come back from something like this at this age, but if anybody could it\u2019s this woman because she is so strong and so full of life and she can overcome, it seems like, truly anything.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A group called The Hot Sardines <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/search\/top\/?q=Barbara%20Maier%20Gustern\">posted<\/a> on Facebook:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>I\u2019d say rest in peace, but I can\u2019t imagine my beloved voice teacher, friend and musical co-conspirator Barbara Maier Gustern ever sitting still. At 87, she would coach a dozen singers by day and then dash off to performances nearly every night to support all of us, beaming from the front row. That\u2019s where she was headed when she was randomly attacked outside her Manhattan apartment Thursday night. The last time I saw her \u2014 after one of our shows \u2014 we hugged goodbye, her 4\u201910\u201d frame barely reaching my collarbone, and thanked me for being in her life. That\u2019s just who she was.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>To lose her is hard enough; to lose her to a random, senseless act of evil is more than I know what to do with. I don\u2019t get it, and I\u2019m so angry. But Barbara didn\u2019t spend much time on anger \u2014 as she put it, \u201cBad things have happened to me, but I\u2019ve had a wonderful life.\u201d Her spirit was a rare light in a dark world.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>So grateful for Barbara. Sending light out to all those whose lives she bettered. She did so much good for so many people. The irony is that whoever did this might not have if only she\u2019d had Barbara in her life. Whatever you do today, find the love and the joy in it. She\u2019d want us to keep the party going.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday, an 87-year-old female singing coach who counted among her students Blondie singer Debbie Harry and the cast of the 2019 Broadway revival of the musical \u201cOklahoma!\u201d died in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1384458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1384458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1384458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1384458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1384458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1384458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1384458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}