Jessye Norman with Eleanor Wachtel | Feb. 16, 2019 | Toronto Public Library
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- Опубликовано: 28 окт 2019
- On February 16, 2019, the Toronto Public Library hosted a conversation between Jessye Norman and Eleanor Wachtel at the Toronto Reference Library's Appel Salon.
This conversation was part of a symposium called Black Opera, presented in partnership with The Glenn Gould Foundation, tracing the heroic struggles of pioneering artists of African origin to enter the operatic world, their fight for acceptance and recognition, their triumphs and accomplishments.
This symposium was part of a week of celebrations in Toronto for Jessye Norman, winner of the Twelfth Glenn Gould Prize.
The conversation was recorded for CBC's Writers & Company. TPL thanks CBC Licensing for the use of this video. To read more about this and listen to the episode, go here: www.cbc.ca/radio/writersandco... 
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So hard to believe she only had another 7 months to live. Wonderful woman
Even if she had not graced us with her magnificent voice and talent, this interview alone would have given people reason to take notice. Such intelligence, spirt and humor... This is a treasure.
Stephen Mir, I completely agree with you.
indeed
One of the greatest singers of any generation and a wonderful personality.
Such a beautiful soul inside out. I truly enjoyed each and every of her conversations. Ms. Norman I am going to miss your angelic voice.
What a captivating spirit she was & leaves an indelible positive memory for the world: Her beautiful voice, her sophisticated humorous personality, her genius intellect & yet her humbleness is reflected with all those blessings.
Jessye was such a great conversationalist. So much poise ❤
Thanks for sharing. Miss Norman, the one and only Miss Norman, she was, is and ever will be a world heritage.
Not only a gorgeus voice, but a supreme human been. ❤️
Oh nonsense.
Ms. Norman points to the highest and brightest in the human being. She is a beautifully rare and authentic voice. So grateful these interviews record her shining spirit.
Well said. Indeed a very special Woman .
Beautiful interview..one of my favorite singers. Her perspective so positive, even during the times in which she grew up..Such a gem...May God bless her Heavenly soul, so many words of wisdom.
My heart aches every time I see this. She was such an amazing talent and I loved her voice.
j'ai du mal à croire encore qu'elle ait disparu....elle paraissait éternelle....je l'adorais, son apparition à la télévision était magique.......repose en paix Jessye.
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She is a great gift and a blessing!
Shame, shame, shame on those people who derisively called her "just enormous" ...what an *enormous* ebullient, effusive personality and a HUGE vocal instrument, full of life and power...
And they're still trying to hold on to those same silly ways. This country has to be at least 200 years behind with this foolishness.
I love Ms Jessye Norman's Life Story...I am so glad she shared it with everyone...and thank you for sharing this video...a sense of humour....Yes, she does!
It's sad she had to escape America to learn her craft to a country where she was respected and appreciated. Sad!
She was the anti DIVA. sweet and peaceful. Miss Norman, you must be a singing among angels now. RIP
That’s a hoot. She became a parody of the diva.
She was a remarkable human being who brought beauty to others through her voice. She is sadly missed.
She was a diva, and had every right to be so.
what? please know your history. she was literally the epitome of the word "diva" in operatic history and that is not necessarily a bad thing at all. there was a literal french film called Diva that was inspired by her. we all loved her then as we love her here. this is not mainstream music.
@@ransomcoates546 thank God she escaped this sad sad country.
In the past couple of days I have found wonderful interviews with Jessye. I've been a fan for many years, but that these interviews have been captured and shared creates a an extraordinary glimpse into the artist's, life, heart, intelligence. For those of us who will forever grieve her loss this is soooooo valuable. Thank you.
What a beautiful, joyous spirit. Her voice was magnificent and unparalleled, but I love her even more for her infectious energy.
This is how an interview should be done! Excellent!
She was such a visionary. She made me cry with her statement about her experience as a student in highschool after the World War two. She understands education from the begining. She was also very supportive with the new american composers. A great human being
Thank God she escaped America.
What a great pleasure to listen and watch this interview. I was one of the lucky ones to have heard the great Jessye Norman in person in small and large halls, both concert with piano and orchestra and full opera. She was not only a highly intelligent and perceptive person but the possessed one of the the great voices of all time and used it brilliantly and was highly musical. Her voice made an impact in person that is hard to imagine, unless you heard her.
Correction Ms. Wachtel: Martina Arroyo was a splendid Elsa in Lohengrin at the Metropolitan opera in the late 60's before Ms. Norman. Grace Bumbry sang Venus in Tannhauser at Bayrueth in 1961. Also Ms. Norman never sang Isolde on stage though she did sing most of it in concert and nor did she sing Elsa on stage but did record it complete!
Do your research! You're a librarian. It's a bit insulting to assume that black women did not do things they actually did and did superbly.
What a magnificent voice and great lady inside and out. I am grateful she has been in my life 🙏👏🙏
I, too, grew up in Augusta, Georgia, so this interview had me beaming and swollen with pride. Ms. Norman is the epitome of dignity, wisdom, and aged elegance. She also does something in this exchange that I applaud: She refused to take the bait and play the racial victim. Her sterling attitude, most likely instilled in her by her segregation-era parents and community, was that if someone had a problem with her because of her race, that was THEIR problem. My mother had that same sentiment. She and Ms. Norman respected themselves enough, and were too busy living life, to let real or imagined racism impede them. Norman was mature and generous enough to focus on all the wonderful things life had given her, instead of digging for reasons to be resentful. I love it.
Stationed twice at Ft. Gordon around my tour in Vietnam Augusta has a place in my memory. I sang in a combined chorus, LA Chorale and Pacific Chorale, 1991, with Jessye as soloist. There were probably 200 choral singers and after the performance, Jessye stood at the stage exit and "shook the hand of every singer as we exited". We loved her. Thank you for prompting a beautiful memory.
"play the racial victim"? what exactly are you talking about?
@@bcom11 She would not let this interviewer allow racism to define Norman's life. (Notice that the other woman gently pressed the issue.) Norman knew that her life story was about so much more than racism. She was blessed and PRIVILEGED to grow up in a strong village, with those who loved her, protected her, gave her God and manners and morality and discipline. How someone may or may not have regarded her skin color was irrelevant, and she knew it, which is why she entered a field many Blacks had chosen not to join and then became one of its biggest stars.
TWW: “Aged” elegance - an off-hand, casual insult. And the interviewer was not baiting her. No one would bait such a remarkable woman. Re-examine your language.
@@dolinaj1 Re-examine YOUR priorities. You can go through life trying to perceive well-meaning, innocuous things as insulting, or you can choose to appreciate a beautiful motive and beautiful language when you read it.
So glad I found her. Late in my life but she warms my heart. This fits the times - right now. Racism and assumption of white superiority is ignorant.
Thank you for this great interview of this great singer and her insight.
It is surreal that she talks about Strauss' Four Last Songs, talking about the the third one, the one about accepting death with a certain approach - and she herself died just seven months after this interview.
I started with broadway musicals, then I first heard Bev Sills which led to Tebaldi which led to Callas. It was a long time before I even bothered to know more than the outline of the stories. When I saw my first vids with sub titles I learned the actual stories. Hearing her Liebestod was the start of buying everything of hers I could get my hands on.
She was the best!
Delightful interview. Delightful person.
Wasn't this just a couple of weeks before she left this Earth? Her singing of Purcell's When I am laid to Earth is one I listen to every time someone very special to me dies. It, along with the video of her singing, reveals her incredibly, unequaled artistry.
No this was early in 2019. She died at the end of September.
@@direfranchement yes!
I didn't know anything about her. I'm glad to have seen this interview. She is amazing. Wish I knew her in person. A special heart.
Liebestod, nobody sings it better.
No one better, especially with Karajan
I agree
Jessye had such great communication skills. She had the voice and cadence of a world citizen,not that of being merely American.
Web connection now is giving us the chance to put thoughts on paper and share them in a public space like this, being supportive with things we care the most, letters, words are sounds like music, languages, a certain expressive style is capable to bewitch the audience like a very gifted opera singer, because we are always seeking for emotions, amazing spectacular Jesse was capable to give us huge emotions, she can still be a great example for young performers, for other opera singers, trying to exploit the voice the best they can for ... maximum emotional impact we need the most. Let's dedicate this interview those who need to become your supporters from now on, let them web technologies work for you guys, let .. them words and sounds caress hearts and build up a better humankind together
The singer who really made us understand German opera
She is so adorable. What an Amazing Woman with an Awesome Talent! ❤️
Such a treat on a winters afternoon, isolating, and totally enthralled. Thank you. Geralda
This reminds me of the beautiful time we spent together although too short. Bless Jesse!
She carries herself with such Grace class and dignity! Moreover, she has a social conscience and I like that, along with black pride.
Yeah yeah. Jessye We salute you, love you your community 👸🏾👸🏾👸🏾♥️. Am so glad you have a brother like you do they experimented on you just to see. Like they have done so in the past. Am so sorry this happened to you beautiful joyous true Lady. My grandson loves opera am going to teach him about you so he Knows who da best 👸🏾👸🏾👸🏾👸🏾👸🏾♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️👸🏾👸🏾👸🏾👸🏾👸🏾👸🏾
Amazing, I think the same Jessie, people are crazy, xx
1:12:50 Float on, dear Jessye.
Ohh we miss you so much, Miss Norman!🌸❤️
"Tonight....I actually committed the murder".....inspired choice in interpretation of a psychological opera. The choices were pondered each time Jessye performed "Erwartung" by Schoenberg. I found this fascinating.....!!!!
You live in my heart
Today I thought of you all day 🙏
remember when people were charming?
MISS WACHTEL IS NOT CHARMING.
Love Jessie Norman. My DIVA.
What a great interview
What a marvelous manner!
Everyone needs a bit of Jessye Norman AND Tina Turner
Wow beauty voice and diva❤Her death too early.
Merci, Jessye!
Legend!
OH..I HAD NO IDEA JESSE WAS GONE. WOW.
Yes, friend. The loss is still felt deeply.
Speak on it Ms. Jessye- integration?
Make it plain! " They wanted us to do our best"
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I thought she was just a wonderful lady and beautiful.
Lovely girl so lovely
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One day - probably long, long in the future - America will face their racial crimes without flinching or making excuses. One day.
Her official cause of death was septic shock and multi-organ failure, secondary to complications of a spinal cord injury she had sustained in 2015. She was 74.
Her health deteriorated so quickly wow.
Please, translators!!!! Marla??????? She refers to MAHLER!!!!!!
Is is she singer
Stunning lady. Stunning level. But why does EW have her hair hanging before her eyes?
Like all other black opera singers Jessey Norman was invited very late to sing at MET. Reason: the MET (a private opera house) didn't like black singers.
She turned down roles the Met provided her because she felt they weren't good for her voice at the time. That's why the delay in her Met career appearances. "She said this in an interview".
yup and that's true even today. it's just profitable to program token works such as fire shut up in my bones (which is a great work btw).
Please check your facts.