Jessye Norman
Sergio A. Mims writes:
I
wanted you and your readers to know that I will be celebrating the
career and legacy of the legendary soprano and humanitarian Jessye
Norman, who passed away on September 30, on my classical music radio on
Tuesday Oct 22. and Nov. 12
On
the Oct. 22 the entire program devoted to a recording of one of her
earliest recording triumphs with the Carl Maria Von Weber opera
Euryanthe with Marek Janowski conducting the Staatskapelle Berlin
Then
on Nov. 12 I will broadcast what is considered one of her greatest
achievements in the Richard Strauss' opera Ariadne auf Naxos conducted
by Kurt Masur with the Gewandhausorchester. The New York Times said of
her singing in the recording that:
"Ms.
Norman’s queenly quality, her larger-than-lifeness, suited her for
myth...But since there wasn’t anything ethereal about her full-bodied
(though luminous and levitating) sound, the effect was that of both
mortal and deity, an earth goddess. She can be intimate here, telling a
story across a campfire, and then suddenly she’s unfurling across the
millenniums".
The
show can be heard on WHPK-FM in Chicago locally on 88.5FM and worldwide
livestream on whpk.org every Tuesday from 12-3PM U.S. Central Time)
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