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Lura Stover (Dolas), soprano, was a winner of the 1941 Walter W. Naumburg Competition.

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Excerpt from The New York Times review, January 27, 1942

Lura Stover, Singer, Gives Debut Recital

Soprano, a Naumburg Award Winner, Heard in Town Hall

"She is a soprano of poised talent, and her knowledge and taste bespeak more experience than most newcomers possess...voice is wide in range. The upper tones are full and free, like a lyric soprano's, the lower tones are darkly colored, like a mezzo-soprano voice...the young soprano has uncommon perception and, in addition, she has been prepared with comprehension. Thus she could range over a fine and varied program, beginning with Elizabethan songs and moving through Wolf, other Lieder, Debussy and a final American group with a command of different styles and epochs. She could be light and graceful, intense and poetic, colorful and humorous.. Miss Stover has the voice and intelligence to go places." H. T.

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Recording from the 1950s featuring Lura Stover, soprano