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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.

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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

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Center for the Performing Arts

November 18, 2021

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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

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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

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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

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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.

Cd Review, Stephen Hastings

Newsletter of the Jussi Björling Societies of the USA & UK

This review was published in the Italian magazine "Musica" in June 2013. I hope the contents will be of some interest even though they were conceived for music-lovers less well-informed about Jussi's recordings than the average reader of this Journal.-s.h.

Jussi Bjorling And His Accompanist Bertil Bokstedt's Memories Of His Greatest Soloist., Carl Friedner

Newsletter of the Jussi Björling Societies of the USA & UK

Bertil Bokstedt was born in the south of Sweden, Skane, in 1919 and joined the Stockholm Opera House (Kungliga Operan, in those days called Kungliga Teatern) in 1942 where his first task was to coach the singers. Later he began to conduct. Between 1969 and 1980 he was intendent (general and artistic manager) of the 18th century theater of Drottningholm about 7 miles west of Stockholm, a job that partly coincided with his assignment as general manager of the Stockholm Opera House 1971-77.

The Bjorling Sound Unanimously Praised, Harald Henrysson

Newsletter of the Jussi Björling Societies of the USA & UK

It is no exaggeration to claim that Stephen Hastings' book has been met with overwhelming, well-deserved praise, as shown by the opinions on different aspects of the book presented below.

President's Notes, Walter B. Rudolph

Newsletter of the Jussi Björling Societies of the USA & UK

The Midsummer activities of late June are past and we are settling into Summer and all of the festivities it promises.

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Jussi Bjorling Society-Usa 2013 Membership Form

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To join JBS-USA or renew your membership now for 2013, please use this form, or a copy. Individual membership contribution is $35; family membership $50.

Gosta Bjorling 1912-2012, Harald Henrysson

Newsletter of the Jussi Björling Societies of the USA & UK

This year is the 100th anniversary of Gosta Bjorling's birth-a talented tenor who would most likely be better known if he hadn't lived in the shadow of his still more talented brother Jussi. David Bjorling's third son ( christened Karl Gustav) was born on 21 September 1912, while his father David was touring with an opera and operetta company. Since Gosta had the same career as a singing prodigy as his brothers Olle and Jussi, his first concert with them on 12 December 1915 in Orebro took place a few months after he had turned three! During the early years …

Richard Tucker Music Foundation, Walter B. Rudolph

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To the Tucker Family and Members of the Richard Tucker Music Foundation:

On behalf of the Board of Directors of the Jussi Bjorling Society, I am honored to acknowledge the beginning of the 100th year of the birth of one of the world's most gifted and giving singers, the late Richard Tucker.

An Unusual Jussi Representation At The Bjorling Museum And The Man Behind It, Harald Henrysson

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When I took part in a Bjorling memorial arrangement in Zurich last year, I was shown the object above, which the owner had found ma flea-market. He agreed that the Museum would be the right place for it and this Spring the stage model arrived there.

Reminiscences Concerning Bluebell's Final Commercial Issue, Seth B. Winner

Newsletter of the Jussi Björling Societies of the USA & UK

ABCD 116 has been announced as the final issue from Bluebell of Sweden. For me, this news is a bittersweet farewell to a company that for 30 years had dedicated its efforts to issuing the surviving unpublished broadcast recordings of Jussi Bjorling, and then gone on to bring the work of other Swedish vocal artists to international notice, in its "Great Swedish Singers" series. In fact, Bluebell kept the Bjorling legacy alive and before the public more reliably than any of the big corporations that the great Swedish tenor had recorded for. Commendably, this little company kept its issues in …