Sue Carroll Sue Carroll Susan Elizabeth "Sue" Carroll (6 December 1953 – 25 December 2011) was an English journalist, best known for her time as a columnist at the "Daily Mirror". Carroll was born in 1953 at Gosforth, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. After leaving Gosforth Grammar School she joined D. C. Thomson & Co. in Dundee, Scotland. Working on the weekly teenage girls magazine "Jackie" she assisted on its "Cathy and Claire" problem page and then moved on to write the magazines fashion and beauty features. Aged 20 she moved to London to work as features editor for "Woman". Employed for her ability to extract
Recital I (for Cathy) from Gaetano Donizetti's "Lucia di Lammermoor" and Giacomo Meyerbeer's "Dinorah" . She ends the piece with a prayer for liberation ("libera nos"), her vocal range reduced to a semitone. In "Quotation and Cultural Meaning in Twentieth-Century Music" by David Metzer, the sources of the musical fragments quoted in "Recital I (for Cathy)" are identified as follows —the track numbers and time indications refer to the only recording that exists of the piece (RCA 09026-62540-2, with Berberian and the London Sinfonietta conducted by Berio): Recital I (for Cathy) Recital I (for Cathy) is a stage work by the Italian composer Luciano