Jacqueline Roberts, a Kentucky-born soprano — who collaborated with composer and folk balladeer John Jacob Niles, working with him as he set poetry by Trappist monk Thomas Merton to music — has died.
Roberts, 92, a former resident of Gratz Park in Lexington, died March 3 in Gainesville, Fla., according to her obituary.
Roberts was a member of the music department faculty at Eastern Kentucky University and Asbury College and taught voice lessons privately as well…