In the years before her untimely death, Jessye Norman's career was winding down and record executives were nudging the soprano to release a number of her recordings that lay silent in the vaults, some ...
The new collection “Jessye Norman: The Unreleased Masters” raises artistic and ethical questions. The soprano Jessye Norman, who died in 2019.Credit...Philippe Wojazer/Agence France-Presse, via Getty ...
Jessye Norman’s great spirit shines in her memoir “Stand Up Straight and Sing.” It is like an aria, with themes that linger and repeat and emotion all the more striking because of how it is restrained ...
Norman, who was born Sept. 15, 1945, in Augusta, Ga., grew up in the Jim Crow South and knew racism. She helped integrate local stores, sitting at white-only lunch counters. "We ordered food, daring ...
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