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Jussi In The News, Dan Shea
Jussi In The News, Dan Shea
Journal of the Jussi Björling Societies of the USA & UK
A good idea that was mentioned frequently during last June's Washington conference on the vocal legacy of Jussi Bjorling was: "Let's keep track of all the interesting articles that mention Jussi and publish them in our Journal for all our members." This we hope to do, but our work will be better- and more fun- if YOU help us. Please let us know about "Jussi items" you come across. We'll keep track of your information and summarize it for our readers.
Jussi In The News: Media Notes Of Interest To Our Members From Our Members., Dan Shea
Jussi In The News: Media Notes Of Interest To Our Members From Our Members., Dan Shea
Journal of the Jussi Björling Societies of the USA & UK
•Thanks to Email from Toby and Karl Hekler, Yoel Arbeitman, and others, we heard of Fr. Owen Lee's eloquent tribute to Jussi on an intermission feature during the February 5th Metropolitan broadcast of La Traviata. Luckily, we had a tape going during that broadcast, anticipating some sort of "happening" on Jussi's birthday. Thus we can provide for you the precise transcript of Fr. Lee's statement. He pointed out that he had been asked to discuss his favorite singers for that broadcast, but that some of his personal choices, like Zinka Milanov, had already been chosen by others. He continues with …
Jussi In The News: Media Notes Of Interest To Our Members From Our Members., Dan Shea
Jussi In The News: Media Notes Of Interest To Our Members From Our Members., Dan Shea
Journal of the Jussi Björling Societies of the USA & UK
+ Well, for the committed Jussi-phile (and that certainly includes all members of this Society, by definition}, the biggest media Jussi-fest of the year has to be the publication, in April, of Number 2, vol. 16 of The Opera Quarterly: over 30 pages of fascinating Remembrances of Jussi, by London Green, William Ashbrook, M. Owen Lee, and Robert Baxter; followed by Andrew Farkas' description of his search to track down the answer to one of the mysteries of Jussi's performance-history, in the 14-page article ''Bjorling and Ballo, 'The Most Unkindest Cut of All'". You'll want to follow all the twists …
Jussi In The News: Media Notes Of Interest To Our Members, From Our Members, Carla Ramsey, Dan Shea
Jussi In The News: Media Notes Of Interest To Our Members, From Our Members, Carla Ramsey, Dan Shea
Journal of the Jussi Björling Societies of the USA & UK
First a big welcome to Madeleine Drake and her "Web Notes" guide to Jussi on the internet, which appears earlier in this issue. Her work will overlap with ours in this column, but we'll try to concentrate on Jussi-news in the printed and broadcast media.