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The Bjorling Wedding Anders Bjorling And Judie Ziemke Marry

Newsletter of the Jussi Björling Societies of the USA & UK

In the impressive surroundings of Christ Chapel on the campus of Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minnesota, the wedding of Anders Bjorling and Judie Ziemke took place on May 17th, 2014. They were surrounded by family and some close friends, including Lars Bjorling and Stig Westman, who traveled from Sweden for the occasion. Mr. Westman and Anders have known each other since they were ten years old.

President's Notes, Walter B. Rudolph

Newsletter of the Jussi Björling Societies of the USA & UK

Dear Colleagues,

Have you seen our Facebook page recently? If not, read on ...

The Facebook page for the Jussi Bjorling Society-USA is our greatest potential tool to spread the word about our tenor. Please look at it anew:

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For The Love Of Music: Yuri Lily Funahashi Shares The Gift Of Collaboration, Mareisa Weil

Colby Magazine

A virtuoso is quietly going about her business in the classrooms of the Bixler Art and Music Center. Yuri Lily Funahashi, accomplished chamber musician, assistant professor, and Music Department co-chair, is strengthening and inspiring her students’ relationship with music.

Chapman University Big Band And Jazz Combo In Concert, Chapman University Big Band, Chapman Jazz Combo

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Uni Percussion Group, November 18, 2021 [Program], University Of Northern Iowa. School Of Music.

Music Recital Programs

Program of a music recital given by faculty, students, or guest artists from the School of Music at the University of Northern Iowa.

Ensemble Concerts: Jazz I And Ii, November 18, 2021, Tom Marko

School of Music Programs

Center for the Performing Arts

November 18, 2021

Thursday Evening

8:00 p.m.

Recalling Longtime Member Robert Tweed, And His Memories Of Jussi, Dan Shea

Newsletter of the Jussi Björling Societies of the USA & UK

We learned recently of the death last year of Robert Tweed, and recalled an article about him written by Mickey Dove in 2000 for issue # 10 of this Newsletter. As an English teacher at West Leyden High School in Northlake IL and at nearby Elmhurst College, he was once asked to provide a model memoir of someone important to him. Here are some excerpts from that memoir, which expresses ideas that many of us will find eloquent and personally meaningful.

Jussi And The Verdi Bicentennial

Newsletter of the Jussi Björling Societies of the USA & UK

Immortal Performances' new restoration of the Met's 1940 Un hallo in maschera includes Milton Cross commentary, curtain calls and program notes by Stephen Hastings, author of The Bjorling Sound. This 2 CD album includes a 40 page booklet with rare photographs provided by the Bjorling Museum in Sweden, a highly detailed, track-related synopsis, and biographies about the singers. Bonus recording is a premiere on disc excerpt (Act I, final scene) from La boheme, San Francisco Opera, 1949 with Bjorling and Albanese.

Who Is Stefan Olmars? A Conversation With Harald Henrysson, Stefan Olmars, Harald Henrysson

Newsletter of the Jussi Björling Societies of the USA & UK

Harald: Stefan, I still remember how surprised I was when I saw you for the first time in New York in 2002. I have been on the board of the Scandinavian JB Society since it was founded and thought I knew the people active there, but here came a Swede to attend the Jussi conference - the only one besides me - and I had never seen him! Now you have been Secretary of our Society for ten years and your dedication, contacts and organizational skill have been invaluable. You started and are still successfully running a "Northern Branch" of …

Jacob Forsell Remembers Jussi, Jacob Forsell

Newsletter of the Jussi Björling Societies of the USA & UK

In my childhood home in the Stockholm suburb Lidingo Jussi Bjorling was quite often a dear guest. Sometimes with his family, sometimes without. My father, who was the eldest son of the Stockholm Royal Opera director John Forsell, knew Jussi from the 1920s. He was also Jussi's family doctor over the years, so it was not surprising that they spent a lot of time together.

Jussi's ''Manon," Licia Albanese Turns 100

Newsletter of the Jussi Björling Societies of the USA & UK

One of the world's favorite sopranos, Licia Albanese, was partner to Jussi Bjorling's commercial recording of Puccini's Manon Lescaut (1954). Each of Jussi's Met broadcasts was legendary. But few if any performances wear legendary like the 1956 broadcast of the same opera with the same Manon and Des Grieux, conducted by Dimitri Mitropoulos. Father Owen Lee refers to it as "the most thrilling of all Met broadcasts."

The Festival Of Britain In 1951 London And Jussi Bjorling- Almost!, Richard Copeman

Newsletter of the Jussi Björling Societies of the USA & UK

In 1951 there was a centennial celebration in London of the first Great Exhibition at Crystal Palace in 1851. People usually just think of the exhibition and buildings when looking back at this great show, which was such a morale booster after the dark years of WW2. But there was also the London Season of the Arts, and the centerpiece of this centennial was the opening of the Royal Festival Hall, which was to act as replacement for the Queens Hall (where Jussi made his recital debut in 1937) but which had been destroyed by bombs in 1941.

Photo Reveals Jussi Interview In The Usa, Harald Henrysson

Newsletter of the Jussi Björling Societies of the USA & UK

The photo here was recently found among material owned by the Bjorling family. We can see Jussi being interviewed, together with Aμna-Lisa, by the radio station WOL. This is not from one of his four previously known USA radio interviews, which are all preserved in recordings.

President's Notes, Walter B. Rudolph

Newsletter of the Jussi Björling Societies of the USA & UK

Greetings to Jussiphiles everywhere,

Fall is fleeing Winter's blustery arrival. The Board of Directors of JBS-USA sends you our very best greetings for Thanksgiving and the Holiday Season.

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Available Now: Cds And Dvd Of Jussi Bjorling (And A Cd Of Gosta B.)

Newsletter of the Jussi Björling Societies of the USA & UK

Your new copy of the JBS Newsletter features Stephen Hastings's definitive review of Bluebell's final CD issue, the 2-disk set Jussi Bjorling: Concerts in Finland and the USA (1940-1957).

Fundamentally important points made in that review are that "the Bjorling we hear here is at his very best," with his singing of five Sibelius songs "unmatched in its beauty" and in sound that is "restored to exceptionally vivid effect by Seth Winner."

We Note The Passing Of Adolph "Bud" Herseth, Dan Shea

Newsletter of the Jussi Björling Societies of the USA & UK

long time principal trumpet of the Chicago Symphony, whose trumpet virtuosity he credited, in part, to Jussi Bjorling.

James Melton: The Tenor Of His Times By Margo Melton Nutt, William C. Clayton

Newsletter of the Jussi Björling Societies of the USA & UK

Those of us who love James Melton's singing have been waiting a very long time for this informative and revealing biography/memoir. The author, hi s daughter and only child, attests that she spent "twenty plus" years writing it, and the book has been well worth the wait. Drawing on family letters and newspapers (thanks mainly to her mother's voluminous scrap books), she has interwoven her father's dynamic life with her own participation and memories in a volume redolent of triumph and later troubles.

Serenade, A Love Story, Dan Shea

Newsletter of the Jussi Björling Societies of the USA & UK

Carol Jean Delmar has written a personal memoir of her parents that gives glimpses of the musical milieu that they belonged to in 1930s Central Europe. Her father Franz Jung was a young bass-baritone graduate of the Neues Wiener Konservatorium, chosen in 1936 for a promising career by a prestigious opera agent.