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Travels In Time Of War, Harry Ebert Oct 2021

Travels In Time Of War, Harry Ebert

Journal of the Jussi Björling Societies of the USA & UK

One goes to experience much in the course of a decades long friendship spent journeying in the service of music. Jussi and I travelled together a great deal, both in Sweden and on the Continent, but above all in the U.S.A. where we lived together through four long tours. Let me for a moment recall some of my memories of our adventurous travels right in the midst of war.

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Guest Performances On California's Sunshine Coast, Kurt Herbert Adler Oct 2021

Guest Performances On California's Sunshine Coast, Kurt Herbert Adler

Journal of the Jussi Björling Societies of the USA & UK

Jussi Bjorling's long-standing connections with the San Francisco Opera have left us with wonderful and unforgettable memories. He sang many of his most famous roles here-in Li Trovatore, Manon Lescaut, La Boheme, Tosca. Rigoletto and Romeo et Juliette. At one of these performances his wife appeared as Juliette, and on one occasion she sang with him the duet "Sweethearts'' for the annual Fol de Roi, an event which the Opera Guild organizes to support the work of the opera company and which is attended by thousands of people. Mr. Bjorling always hoped that he would have the opportunity to sing …

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More On Bertil's Smithsonian Lecture In Washington D.C. Oct 2021

More On Bertil's Smithsonian Lecture In Washington D.C.

Journal of the Jussi Björling Societies of the USA & UK

Here is a portion of Don Pruitt's report on Bertil's talk of June 26 at the Hirshhorn Gallery: "Alla and I have just returned from Bertil's outstanding lecture at the Smithsonian. The talk was fascinating, with several new (to me) photos and sound tracks, including a wonderful Carmen Flower Song from the Firestone Hour and a 'La donna e mobile' from, of all places, the Ed Sullivan Show. The latter used a seductive Maddalena mime who clung to JB throughout, apparently affecting his performance toward greatest fears of verisimilitude that the usual partaker of this role could ever hope for.

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Jussi Bjorling's Record Season 1934-1935, Bertil Bengtsson Oct 2021

Jussi Bjorling's Record Season 1934-1935, Bertil Bengtsson

Journal of the Jussi Björling Societies of the USA & UK

If one surveys Jussi Bjorling's first seasons as an opera singer, one very soon notices that the breadth of his repertoire and the number of his performances are indicative of an almost unbelievable level of diligence and ability to learn roles during these years. He reached the apogee in this respect during two seasons- 1934-1935 and 1935-1936. It is the first of these that I intend to discuss in detail here. To judge from surviving reviews, he also at this time was performing at a very high level both vocally and interpretively.

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An Appraisal Of The Vocal Art Of Jussi Bjorling, Vsevolod Vasilievich Timokhin Oct 2021

An Appraisal Of The Vocal Art Of Jussi Bjorling, Vsevolod Vasilievich Timokhin

Journal of the Jussi Björling Societies of the USA & UK

The countries of Scandinavia have given the world of vocal art many times which have achieved world renown. What music lover does not know about the "Swedish Nightingale," Jenny Lind, who was one of the greatest singers of the Nineteenth Century? Or about those other artists, Patti's rivals, Christine Nilsson and Sigrid Arnoldson? Or about the famous Finnish singer Alma Fahstrom, who preformed for many years on the stage of the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow? In our century many Scandinavian singers have achieved international fame; but it is interesting to note that almost all of them were adherents of the …

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The J.B. Museum's "Jussi-Appreciation" Project For Elementary-School Students, Deborah Clemons Oct 2021

The J.B. Museum's "Jussi-Appreciation" Project For Elementary-School Students, Deborah Clemons

Journal of the Jussi Björling Societies of the USA & UK

Who says that children can't love opera and the classically trained singing voice? The first step is to let them hear it. We at the Jussi Bjorling museum in Sweden have tried just that. We recently completed a pilot project with the Ostermalm Elementary School in Borlange that introduced students to Jussi. Our project used a group of 80 students from ages 6 to 9. We designed the project to give students a broader experience than they would normally get during a standard one-hour museum visit. This project, with some modifications, could be used in any school and with any …

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Jussi And The Gounod "Sanctus", Donald Pruitt Oct 2021

Jussi And The Gounod "Sanctus", Donald Pruitt

Journal of the Jussi Björling Societies of the USA & UK

The wonderful CD "Jussi Bjoerling Rarities" (VAIA 1189) contains much welcome material, including what is indeed a rarity: a musical error committed by our tenor. When I listened for the first time to the "Sanctus" from Gounod's "St. Cecilia Mass" in English (HHP A51, the Ford Sunday Evening Hour broadcast of November 13, 1938), I detected a digression from the score in the second solo tenor passage. Having sung the is piece numerous times myself, I wondered if my memory of it had faded with the years, so I received my copy of the score and investigated. Surely enough, I …

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More On Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg And Bertil Bengtsson's Smithsonian Lecture, Dan Shea Oct 2021

More On Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg And Bertil Bengtsson's Smithsonian Lecture, Dan Shea

Journal of the Jussi Björling Societies of the USA & UK

We were pleased to learn 1har Supreme Court Justice Ginsburg had attended Bertil's lecture in Washington, described elsewhere in this Journal, but not really surprised; Justice Ginsburg is a well known supporter of the arts and especially an opera fan. In fact, she told about her enthusiasm for opera during an interview on a Met intermission feature last season, as you may recall. Bur in checking some biographical notes on her (www.supremecour1his1ory. org/justice/ginsburg.com and also via google.com) we were surprised to learn of her additional connections to Sweden and to the classical music recording industry!

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Jussi At Carnegie Hall, Harold Sokolsky Oct 2021

Jussi At Carnegie Hall, Harold Sokolsky

Journal of the Jussi Björling Societies of the USA & UK

Every classical lover knows about Carnegie Hall, the historic concert hall at Seventh Avenue and 57th Street in New York City. Designed in a Neo-ltalian Renaissance style by William B. Tuthill, the building opened in May 1891 and was eventually named for the industrialist Andrew Carnegie, its builder and original owner. Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky served as guest conductor during thc hall's opening week, and since then virtually every important American and visiting musician has performed there. The hall was the longtime home of the New York Philharmonic until that orchestra moved to Lincoln Center in the 1960s.

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Jussi Bjorling At Carnegie Hall, Cantor Don Goldberg Oct 2021

Jussi Bjorling At Carnegie Hall, Cantor Don Goldberg

Journal of the Jussi Björling Societies of the USA & UK

You remember the old saw: the tourist lost in Manhattan sees a violinist walking down the street and calls out, "how do you get to Carnegie Hall?" The musician's answer is, "Practice!"

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Jbs Goes To Santa Fe - July 2001, Dan Shea Oct 2021

Jbs Goes To Santa Fe - July 2001, Dan Shea

Journal of the Jussi Björling Societies of the USA & UK

When you've come a long way to attend a JBS conference, what else do you do after the conference? For some of our members the answer turned out to be: Join the JBS-organized post conference excursion to Santa Fe for more opera. Fifteen of us enjoyed staying together at the Hotel St Francis, located close to the central city Plaza, and attended two performances: Verdi's Falstaff on July 4 and Lucia di Lammermoor on July 6. Most of us arrived July 3 and next morning Independence Day festivities began at the Plaza, when the local firemen offered their traditional pancake …

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The Smithsonian Presents Bertil Bengtsson On Jussi: A Swedish Tenor's American Odyssey, Dan Shea Oct 2021

The Smithsonian Presents Bertil Bengtsson On Jussi: A Swedish Tenor's American Odyssey, Dan Shea

Journal of the Jussi Björling Societies of the USA & UK

As Bertil Bengtsson prepared for his two presentations at the JBS Conference at, Gustavus, he received a welcome invitation from the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC: Thank, to information provided them by JBS member Bea Bobotek, they knew of his availability to speak on Jussi and his career: it would be an attractive program for their continuing lecture series. Bertil worked out some agreements between the Smithsonian and the Embassy of Sweden and accepted. By the time June 26 arrived, word had gone out in the monthly Smithsonian Associates magazine and a nearly sold-out audience of over 200 would appear …

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Some "Consumer-Reactions" To The Gustavus Conference, Bill Clayton Oct 2021

Some "Consumer-Reactions" To The Gustavus Conference, Bill Clayton

Journal of the Jussi Björling Societies of the USA & UK

After returning home from the Gustavus conference, I put out two email requests to all who attended for their reactions to our collective experience. I was quite gratified with the number of responses as \well as the variety, strength, and good humor of the opinions offered. I have culled from them the following categories, and I have done my best to see that every respondent is represented at least once. Those who appear more often do so because they wrote at considerable length about a variety of reactions.

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The Gustavus Conference, Bill Clayton, Mickey Dove, Dan Shea Oct 2021

The Gustavus Conference, Bill Clayton, Mickey Dove, Dan Shea

Journal of the Jussi Björling Societies of the USA & UK

We came, we met, we listened-to some great singing, and some first-class commentary on the singing, at our JBS Conference at Gustavus Adolphus College, And we talked- many opinions were aired. For the "consumers report" we refer you to Bill's survey, of the members who attended in the next article. Here we give an overview of the conference events as a whole, from start to finish

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Editorial Aria, Dan Shea Oct 2021

Editorial Aria, Dan Shea

Journal of the Jussi Björling Societies of the USA & UK

Welcome to the Fall 2001 issue of our JBS Journal, our latest experiment in producing a permanent record for you of the activities of the Jussi Bjorling Societies. We'll tell you about our Conference ay Gustavus Adolphus College (June 28-July 1), four days of stimulating comradery organized around some extraordinary presentations by our guest speakers.

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Front Matter Oct 2021

Front Matter

Journal of the Jussi Björling Societies of the USA & UK

No abstract provided.

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ÉTude De Canosa, Anthony Elia Oct 2021

ÉTude De Canosa, Anthony Elia

Bridwell Library Research

Étude written for friend of composer, pianist Raúl Canosa.

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The Bjorling Societies Meet At The Glyndebturne Festival, June 2003, Des Lockett, Stefan Olmars, Dan Shea Oct 2021

The Bjorling Societies Meet At The Glyndebturne Festival, June 2003, Des Lockett, Stefan Olmars, Dan Shea

Journal of the Jussi Björling Societies of the USA & UK

You may recall our invitation, offered in last April's JBS Newsletter #6, to attend England's Glyndebourne Opera Festival with other Bjorling Society members. The big attraction last summer was to be a new production of Tristan und Isolde, a first-time ever performance of Wagner in Glyndebourne.

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Jussi In The News: Media Notes Of Interest To Our Members, From Our Members, Carla Ramsey, Dan Shea Oct 2021

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.

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A Report From The Jussi Bjorling Museum, Harald Henrysson Oct 2021

A Report From The Jussi Bjorling Museum, Harald Henrysson

Journal of the Jussi Björling Societies of the USA & UK

Editor's Note: We collect here several reports sent by Harald to the Bjorling chat group-those reports stand on their own as a record of the varied activities going on in Sweden at the Borlange JB-Museum and by the Jussi Bjorling Sallskapet (Scandinavian JB-Society).

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Do You Have Access To Email, And Enjoy Hearing News About Jussi And Other Music-Related Discussion? Oct 2021

Do You Have Access To Email, And Enjoy Hearing News About Jussi And Other Music-Related Discussion?

Journal of the Jussi Björling Societies of the USA & UK

Then consider joining our Bjorling discussion-group on Yahoo for more-or-less-daily discussion of Jussi and related topics about other great singers. You don't have to participate actively at first, you can just "lurk," to use the current jargon. To subscribe (free), just write to moderator Mickey Dove at [email protected] .

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News From Gustavus And The Minnesota Bjorlings Oct 2021

News From Gustavus And The Minnesota Bjorlings

Journal of the Jussi Björling Societies of the USA & UK

Recently Anders Bjorling called to give us some news about his and wife Janet's alma mater, Gustavus Adolphus College, located in their hometown of Sr. Peter. Minnesota. You may know that the music department at Gustavus has a beautiful performance space called the Jussi Bjorling Recital Hall with an impressive portrait and bust of Jussi. According to Anders, Gustavus now has installed a large display case in the lobby of Bjorling Hall to hold a permanent exhibit on Jussi's life and career, complete with a sound system and earphones.

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Coming In Our Next Issue: A Discussion Of Yrsa Stenius' Controversial Book On Jussi Oct 2021

Coming In Our Next Issue: A Discussion Of Yrsa Stenius' Controversial Book On Jussi

Journal of the Jussi Björling Societies of the USA & UK

Swedish- Finnish journalist Yrsa Stenius has written an unusual appreciation of Jussi Bjorling, combining intense memories of her theatrical mother's love of the tenor's singing, her own fascination with Jussi's voice and career, and her personal reflections on the stresses of a public life-where one's reputation is always at risk. She boldly interprets known facts about Jussi's public and personal life to fit her theories of the artist's creative angst, and it seems that for many readers she has put together a plausible picture. Indeed many reviews of the book have been positive, but some have been strongly negative. What …

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The Recorded Legacy-Reviews Of Recent Releases Of Interest To Jbs Members, Kristian Krogholm Oct 2021

The Recorded Legacy-Reviews Of Recent Releases Of Interest To Jbs Members, Kristian Krogholm

Journal of the Jussi Björling Societies of the USA & UK

A big array of new releases during 2003 attest to the continuing popularity of our tenor. In addition to the expected re-releases of old favorites, two record companies have come up with exciting new material: Lets begin with the most significant two releases this year, Caprice's 1957 II Trovatore from the Royal Opera in Stockholm, and RCA Red Seal's CD of Jussi's complete 1955 Carnegie Hall recital.

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Web Notes: A Guide To Jussi On The Net, Madeleine Drake Oct 2021

Web Notes: A Guide To Jussi On The Net, Madeleine Drake

Journal of the Jussi Björling Societies of the USA & UK

Welcome to the first issue of Web Notes-a digest version of the many reviews, conversations and informational tidbits about, Jussi Bjorling's life and work that abound all around the Internet. For those of you who already surf the Net, some of this may be familiar. With luck, I may have found a nugget or two that you might have missed. If you haven't yet had a chance to get into the Web, I hope this gives you a glimpse of how Jussi is thriving on the Net, in chat rooms and discussion groups all over, the world.

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Jussi Bjorling Appears In Concert At Manhasset, New York, On December 8, 1956 (The First Time That Janet Neidt Bjorling Heard Her Future Father-In-Law Perform), Karl Hekler Oct 2021

Jussi Bjorling Appears In Concert At Manhasset, New York, On December 8, 1956 (The First Time That Janet Neidt Bjorling Heard Her Future Father-In-Law Perform), Karl Hekler

Journal of the Jussi Björling Societies of the USA & UK

I too, was there, but gaining admission, if you weren't a relative, was not so easy.

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Among Swedes In The U.S.A., Lennart Nylander Oct 2021

Among Swedes In The U.S.A., Lennart Nylander

Journal of the Jussi Björling Societies of the USA & UK

''And one more thing! I'll be back next year and I want to give a concert then for the benefic of Swedish sailor. It'll be in Carnegie Hall and I promise to fill every last seat in that big hall. We'll have a really great time. Speak to my agent about the details."

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The Longing That Becomes Song, Joen Lagerberg Oct 2021

The Longing That Becomes Song, Joen Lagerberg

Journal of the Jussi Björling Societies of the USA & UK

One of the most agreeable privileges accorded the head of an embassy is that of being able to bask in the reflected glory of the ambassadors of Swedish culture, "an official duty" in his sphere of activity, Our country's operatic life has many such ambassadors, more that any other Western country. But the best of them all was certainly Jussi!

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Breaking Hearts In Budapest, Alfred Gardner Oct 2021

Breaking Hearts In Budapest, Alfred Gardner

Journal of the Jussi Björling Societies of the USA & UK

Following Jussi Bjorling's first tremendous successes in Vienna and Prague (March 12-19, 1936), he was quickly engaged for a return visit as soon as his responsibilities with the Stockholm Royal Opera's spring season ended. He returned to Czechoslovakia two months later and travelled on to Vienna for performances of Aida, Trovatore, and Boheme all to great acclaim. With his reputation there firmly established, Jussi was invited to return in 1937 for a longer period.

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Jbs-Usa Gains Five New Honorary Advisors, Mickey Dove, Steve Galantiere, Karl Hekler, Toby Hekler, Andy Karzas, Dan Shea Oct 2021

Jbs-Usa Gains Five New Honorary Advisors, Mickey Dove, Steve Galantiere, Karl Hekler, Toby Hekler, Andy Karzas, Dan Shea

Journal of the Jussi Björling Societies of the USA & UK

JBS-USA is honored to announce that five great singers have agreed to serve as members of our Board of Honorary Advisors: Birgit Nilsson, Licia Albanese and Robert Merrill were good friends and co-Stars of Jussi's and the two great contemporary tenors Placido Domingo and Neil Shicoff have eloquently expressed their admiration for Jussi's art in their books and interviews.

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