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Jessye Norman

Jessye Norman- In Conversation with Tom Hall
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Jessye Mae Norman (Augusta, Georgia, USA, September 15, 1945 - September 30, 2019) was an American opera singer and recitalist. A dramatic soprano, Norman is associated in particular with the Wagnerian repertoire, and with the roles of Sieglinde, Ariadne, Alceste, and Leonore. Norman has been inducted into the Georgia Music Hall of Fame and is a Spingarn Medalist. Apart from receiving several honorary doctorates and other awards, she also received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award

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  1. Commentary
  2. Meyerbeer - L'Africana: Addio, terra nativa
  3. Dido and Aeneas: Dido's Lament
  4. Les chemins de l'amour
  5. His Eye Is On The Sparrow
  6. African Drum Invocation
  7. Chausson : 7 Mélodies Op.2 : VII Le colibri
  8. Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child
  9. R. Strauss: Vier letzte Lieder - 4. Im Abendrot
  10. R. Strauss: Vier letzte Lieder - 3. Beim Schlafengehen
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  1. Ave Maria
  2. Amazing Grace
  3. "Thy hand, Belinda...When I am laid in earth"
  4. Somewhere
  5. God's Gonna Cut You Down
  6. Chausson : 7 Mélodies Op.2 : IV La dernière feuille
  7. 5 Wesendonk Lieder: "Im Treibhaus"
  8. Beau soir
  9. Je Te Veux
  10. I Want Two Wings
  11. Great Day
  12. Greensleeves
  13. Give Me Jesus
  14. Chausson : 7 Mélodies Op.2 : II Le charme
  15. Chausson : Poème de l'amour et de la mer Op.19 : I La fleur des eaux
  16. Mack The Knife
  17. Mary Had A Baby
  18. Lord, I Couldn't Hear Nobody Pray
  19. Chausson : Poème de l'amour et de la mer Op.19 : II: Interlude
  20. Chausson : Chanson perpétuelle Op.37
  21. Chausson : 7 Mélodies Op.2 : III Les papillons
  22. R. Strauss: Vier letzte Lieder - 1. Frühling
  23. My Baby Just Cares for Me
  24. Take The 'A' Train
  25. Stormy Weather
  26. R. Strauss: Vier letzte Lieder - 2. September
  27. There's A Man Going Round
  28. Gospel train
  29. Chausson : 7 Mélodies Op.2 : V Sérénade italienne
  30. I couldn't hear nobody pray
  31. Do lawd, oh do Lawd
  32. Die Nachtigall from Sieben frühe Lieder
  33. The Summer Knows
  34. Habanera
  35. There is a balm in Gilead
  36. Spirituals: My Lord, what a morning
  37. Chausson : Poème de l'amour et de la mer Op.19 : III La mort de l'amour
  38. J'ai Deux Amours
  39. Panis Angelicus
  40. Tristan und Isolde: Prelude
  41. Les Contes d'Hoffmann, ACT FOUR: Belle nuit, ô nuit d'amour (Nicklausse, Giulietta, Chorus)
  42. Were You There
  43. My Lord, what a morning
  44. 4. Im Abendrot
  45. Heaven
  46. Sweet Little Jesus Boy
  47. Les Contes d'Hoffmann, ACT FOUR: Belle nuit, ô nuit d'amour (Nicklausse/Giulietta/Choeurs)
  48. The Holy City
  49. 5 Wesendonk Lieder: "Der Engel"
  50. Dans Ses Yeux
  51. Je Vivrai Sans Toi
  52. Wagner: Tannhäuser - Act 1: Dich: Teure Halle
  53. R. Strauss: Morgen, Op.27, No.4
  54. Pretty Horses
  55. Brahms: Geistliches Wiegenlied, Op. 91, No. 2
  56. Les Parapluies de Cherbourg
  57. April In Paris
  58. Tristan und Isolde: Mild und leise (Liebestod)
  59. Coventry Carol
  60. 3 Rückert Lieder
  61. In the Still of the Night
  62. Another Man Done Gone
  63. Satie: Je Te Veux
  64. Ariadne auf Naxos, Op.60 / Opera : "Es gibt ein Reich"
  65. Les Enfants Qui Pleurent
  66. Between Yesterday and Tomorrow
  67. Tannhäuser: Dich, teure Halle, grüss' ich wieder (Elisabeth's Greeting) (Act II)
  68. The Moon and I
  69. Spirituals: Sometimes I feel like a motherless child
  70. Soon ah will be done
  71. He's got the whole world in His hands
  72. Sanctus
  73. I Was Born in Love With You
  74. Purcell: Dido and Aeneas, Z.626 / Act 3 - "Thy hand, Belinda...When I am laid in earth"
  75. Good Christian men rejoice
  76. Angels from the realms of Glory
  77. Les Contes d'Hoffmann, Act IV: Belle nuit, ô nuit d'amour (Nicklausse, Giulietta, Chorus)
  78. R. Strauss: Caecilie, Op.27, No.2
  79. A Portrait - When I Am Laid In Earth (Purcel
  80. La Valse Des Lilas
  81. Afterthoughts
  82. You Must Believe in Spring
  83. Blue Monk
  84. When The Saints Go Marching In
  85. Angels we have heard on high
  86. With a Song in my Heart
  87. 1. Frühling
  88. 5 Wesendonk Lieder: "Träume"
  89. R. Strauss: Zueignung, Op.10, No.1
  90. Walk together children

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