Stand Up Straight and Sing!
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]–[>]
ancestors, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]. See also African American heritage and specific Norman relatives
Anderson, Marian
concert at the Lincoln Memorial, [>]–[>]
contralto voice, [>]–[>]
discrimination against, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
faith, [>]–[>]
friendship with, [>]–[>]
honoring of, in concert, [>]
international renown, [>], [>], [>]
The Lady from Philadelphia (documentary), [>]
as model, inspiration, [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]
My Lord, What a Morning (autobiography), [>]
at Paine College, Augusta, [>]–[>]
performing in front of, [>]–[>]
seeing performance by, [>]
Angelou, Maya, [>]–[>]
Apollo Theater gospel fest, [>]
Ariadne auf Naxos (Strauss), [>]–[>], [>]
A. R. Johnson Junior High School, Augusta, GA, [>], [>]
Arlen, Harold, [>]
Armstrong, Louis, [>], [>]–[>]
Arnold Schoenberg Institute, University of Southern California, [>]
Arron, Judith, [>]
art, contribution to growth and development, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]. See also creativity; music; Jessye Norman School for the Arts
Ask Your Mama: 12 Moods for Jazz (Langston Hughes), [>]
Ask Your Mama! multimedia production (Langston Hughes and Laura Karpman), [>]–[>], [>]
assertiveness, standing up for oneself, [>], [>]–[>], [>]
Associated Press, [>]
Atlanta Ballet, [>]
atonal music, [>]–[>]
audiences
communicating word meanings, emotions, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
during childhood, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
exchanging energy and connecting with, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>]
of the famous, [>]–[>]
and the impact of music on the spirit, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
and importance of silence, [>]
in Japan, [>]–[>]
mixed races, during Dr. King’s speeches, [>]
at the Munich competition, [>]
at Salzburg summer festival, [>]
“Auf dem Kirchhofe” (“In the Cemetery”) (Brahms), [>]–[>]
“Auf dem Wasser zu singen” (“Singing on the Water”) (Schubert), [>]–[>]
Augusta, GA
Augusta Ballet, [>]
Augusta National Golf Club, [>]
black middle class, [>]
civil rights activism in, [>]–[>], [>], [>]
filming in by 60 Minutes, [>]
First Baptist Church, [>]–[>]
St. Mary’s Episcopal Church, [>]
segregation, racial boundaries in, [>], [>]–[>]
See also African American community; childhood; Mount Calvary Baptist Church; Paine College; Tabernacle Baptist Church
aunts, as strong role models, [>]
Austria, [>]–[>]. See also Salzburg; Vienna
“Ave Maria” (“Holy Mother”) (Schubert), [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
awards and honors
from Austrian government, [>]–[>]
honorary doctorates, [>]–[>]
Kennedy Center Honoree, [>]–[>]
Légion d’Honneur, Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, [>]–[>]
NAACP Spingarn Medal, [>]–[>]
National Endowment for the Arts, National Medal of Arts, [>]–[>]
Bacall, Lauren, [>]–[>]
Bach, Johann Sebastian, [>]
Balanchine, George, [>]
Baldwin, Dalton, [>]
Baldwin, James, [>]
Baptist Church, See First Baptist Church; Mount Calvary Baptist Church; Tabernacle Baptist Church
The Barber of Seville, “Una voce poco fa” (Rossini), [>]
barbershops, [>]
Barcelona, Spain, [>]
Bartók, Béla (Bluebeard’s Castle), [>], [>]
Battle, Kathleen, [>], [>]
“The Battle Hymn of the Republic,” [>]–[>]
Bayerischer Rundfunk Internationaler Musikwettbewerb (Bavarian Radio International Music Competition), [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
Beethoven, Ludwig van (Fidelio), [>]–[>]
“Beim Schlafengehen” (“On the Sleep Eternal”) (Hermann Hesse), [>]
Beirer, Hans, [>], [>]
Berg, Alban, [>]
Berlin, Germany
Berlin Wall, [>]–[>]
living in, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
recording with Herbert von Karajan in, [>]–[>]
Remembrance Church, [>]
Berlioz, Hector
The Death of Cleopatra, [>]–[>]
Les nuits d’été, “L’île inconnue” (“Island of the Unknown”), [>]–[>]
Les Troyens, [>], [>]
Bernac, Pierre, [>]–[>], [>]
Bernstein, Leonard
West Side Story, “Somewhere,” [>]–[>]
Young People’s Concerts, [>]
biscuits, southern style, [>]
“Bless This House,” [>]
Bluebeard’s Castle (Bartók), retranslation from the Hungarian, [>]–[>]
body size as personal, not social issue, [>]
Böhm, Karl, [>]
Bond, Julian, [>]
Boulez, Pierre, [>], [>]
boys
expectations for, in rural GA, [>]–[>]
learning about, [>]–[>]
privileges and opportunities, [>], [>]–[>]
Brahms, Johannes
“Alto Rhapsody,” [>]
“Auf dem Kirchhofe” (“In the Cemetery”), [>]–[>]
creative process, [>]
“Von ewiger Liebe” (“Of Eternal Love”), [>]
Brazil, canceling of 2001 appearance, [>]–[>]
breath control, [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]
Buddhism, Buddha, [>]
Bumbry, Grace, [>]
Bunche, Ralph, [>]
Burnim, Mellonee (African American Music: An Introduction), [>]–[>]
butter, homemade, [>]–[>]
Caesar, Shirley, [>]
Cage, John, [>], [>]
Cambridge University, England, honorary doctorate from, [>]–[>]
canceling an appearance, [>]–[>]
Canterbury Cathedral, England, Christmastide performance, [>], [>]–[>]
Carmen (Bizet)
recording in Paris with Seiji Ozawa, [>]–[>]
refusal of offer to perform, [>]
Carnegie Hall, New York City
African American performers at, [>]–[>]
Ask Your Mama! Twelve Moods for Jazz, [>]
debut performance at, [>]
Gillinson as artistic and executive director of, [>]
Honor! A Celebration of the African American Cultural Legacy, [>], [>]–[>], [>]
performing Cage’s music at, [>]
Sissieretta Jones’s 1892 performance at, [>]
as a spiritual space, [>]
visits to, as student, [>]–[>]
woman.life.song, [>]
Carter, President Jimmy, Nobel Peace Prize award ceremony, [>]–[>]
Casa Del Mar Hotel, Santa Monica, CA, experience of racism at, [>]–[>]
Cassandra, in Les Troyens (Berlioz), as debut performance at the Met, [>]
castrati, [>]
Cathedral of Notre Dame de Paris, performance in, [>]
Cathedral of St. John the Divine, New York City, [>], [>]–[>], [>]
Caurier, Patrice, [>]
Cavafy, Constantine (“Ithaka”), [>]
“In the Cemetery” (“Auf dem Kirchhofe”) (Brahms), [>]–[>]
Chaney, James, [>]
Chicago Lyric Opera production of Gluck’s Alceste, [>]
childhood
clothing, dressing, [>]
desire to play boys’ games, [>]–[>]
friendships, [>]–[>], [>]
and handling constructive critic
ism, [>]
high expectations during, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
and learning about Hinduism, [>]
and learning about racism, segregation, [>]–[>], [>]
learning cooperation, [>]
learning to defend opinions, [>]
omnipresence of music, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]
and parents’ faith, [>]
performing before audiences during, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
and pride in African American heritage, [>], [>]–[>]
quality of education received, [>]–[>]
sense of community, [>]–[>]
sense of responsibility, [>]
strong female role models, [>]
Sunday family gatherings, [>]–[>]
watching television during, [>]–[>]
See also community; parents and specific Norman relatives
A Child of Our Time oratorio (Tippett), [>]–[>]
children
acceptance of differences among, [>]–[>]
accountability to adults, [>]
allowing to develop naturally, [>]
biological, responding to questions about, [>]
and the Jessye Norman School for the Arts, [>]–[>]
nonbiological, nurturing of, [>]–[>]
“prodigies,” and parents’ unproductive behavior, [>]
children’s circle meetings, [>]
Childs, Sister, [>]–[>]
China
difficulties traveling to, [>]–[>]
surgery using Mozart’s music for pain relief, [>]
views on the afterlife, [>]
Chinese, original text for Das Lied von der Erde (Mahler), [>]
choruses, church choirs
all male, [>], [>]
children’s chorus at church, [>]
exposure to gospel singers, [>]
friendships through, [>], [>]
at Howard, [>]
in junior and senior high school, [>], [>]
learning to cooperate, [>]
unspoken competitions among, [>]
Christianity, coming to deeper understanding of, [>]–[>]
Christine (friend), approach to passage of time, [>]
Christmas, celebrating, [>]–[>]
Christmas concerts
Canterbury Cathedral, England, [>]
in the First Baptist Church, Augusta, GA, [>]
Christmastide CD, [>]–[>]
churches
as community centers, [>]–[>]
different, attending, [>]
importance of music/singing to, [>], [>]
See also sacred spaces
Church of St. Ignatius Loyola, New York City
memorial for Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, [>]–[>]
memorial for Lena Horne, [>]
City Meals-on-Wheels (New York City), [>]
civil rights movement
and honoring of Rosa Parks with Congressional Gold Medal, [>]–[>]
integrating lunch counters, [>]
linking of women’s rights to, [>]
parents’/community involvement with, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]
participation in, as middle school student, [>]
and risk of physical harm, [>], [>]–[>]
watching TV coverage of, [>]
and work remaining to be done, [>]–[>]
See also NAACP; Norman, Silas, Jr.
classical repertoire, [>]
Claudia (East German singer), defection by, [>]–[>]
Cleopatra (aunt), [>]
Clinton, President Bill
awarding Parks the Congressional Gold Medal, [>]–[>]
invitation from to sing at second inaugural, [>]
Cole, Nat “King”
exposure to through radio, [>]
“Stardust,” [>], [>]
college, as goal, [>]. See also Howard University School of Music
communicating
as goal of a good performance, [>]
as skill, learning as a child, [>]
emotions through singing, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
the meaning of words, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
See also audiences; languages, words
community. See African American community; churches
compassion, importance of, for happiness, [>], [>]–[>]
composers
adding music to pre-selected text, [>]
favorites, [>]
joy of working with, [>]–[>]
See also specific composers
concentration, importance to success, [>], [>], [>], [>]
conductors, working with
Böhm, Karl, [>]
differences with, expressing honestly and tactfully, [>]–[>]
Glover, Jane, [>]–[>]
Kempe, Rudolf, [>]
Mehta, Zubin, [>]–[>]
Thomas, Michael Tilson, [>]
von Karajan, Herbert, [>]
Worby, Rachael, [>]–[>]
Constitution Hall, Washington, D.C., one of Marian Anderson’s farewell concerts, [>]
Cooper, Anna Julia, [>]–[>]
Corbett, J. Walter, and Mrs., [>]
courtesy. See respect for others
cousins, visits with, [>]–[>]
creativity, creative processes
Balanchine’s, [>]
Brahms’s, [>]
Einstein on, [>]
free time, play time and, [>]–[>]
JN’s, [>]–[>]
and wholeness, [>]–[>]
criticism, constructive
expressing honestly and tactfully, [>]–[>]
learning to handle, [>]
critics, interacting socially with, [>]–[>]
Crosby, Bing, [>]
Cross, Milton, [>]
C. T. Walker Elementary School, Augusta, GA
Silas Norman Sr.’s leadership of the PTA at, [>]
singing in chorus of, [>]
Czech language, and the libretto for The Makropulos Case, [>]–[>]
The Dalai Lama, [>]–[>], [>]
Danbury, CT, Marian Anderson’s home in, [>]
dance, dancers
adjustment of choreography for, [>]
Bill T. Jones’s approach to, [>]–[>]
and the body as a physical instrument, [>]
as collaboration, lessons from Nureyev, [>]–[>]
counting steps, [>]
paying attention to one’s back, [>]
Das Lied von der Erde (Mahler), [>]
Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR), and Marian Anderson, [>], [>]
Davis, Ossie, [>]–[>]
deacon(s), [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]
The Death of Cleopatra (Berlioz), [>]–[>]
death penalty, opposition to, [>]
de Beauvoir, Simone, [>]
debut, operatic, [>]
“Dedication” (“Widmung”) (Schumann), [>]–[>]
deep breathing exercises, [>]–[>]. See also breath control
Democratic party, [>]–[>], [>]
De Pavillion, M., [>], [>]–[>]
the Depression, impact on southern black families, [>]
Der Rosenkavalier (Strauss), [>]
Detroit Free Press, inaccurate article about JN in, [>]
Detroit Tigers, and nephews’ first baseball game, [>]
Deutsch Oper Berlin
decision to leave, [>]–[>], [>]
operatic debut in Tannhäuser, [>], [>]–[>], [>]
position and contract offer, [>], [>]
repertoire, [>]
“Devotion” (“Zueignung”) (Strauss), [>]
Diana, Princess of Wales, [>]
“Dich, teure Halle” (“You, dear treasured hall”) (Tannhäuser, Wagner), [>], [>], [>]
Dido, role of
in the Aeneid (Virgil), [>]
in Dido and Aeneas (Purcell), [>], [>]
in Les Troyens (Berlioz), [>], [>]
“Die Allmacht” (“The Almighty”) (Schubert), [>]–[>]
Die Frau ohne Schatten (The Woman Without a Sh
adow) (Strauss), [>]
“An die Musik” (“To Music”) (Schubert), [>]
diva, as a term, [>]–[>]
Dixon, Dean, [>]–[>]
Dobbs, Mattiwilda
fame, [>]
in Lucia di Lammermoor, [>]
performance at the Met, [>]
doctorates, honorary, [>]–[>]
“Done Made My Vow,” [>]–[>]
Don Giovanni (Mozart), [>]
Dorsey, Tommy, [>]
Dresden, Germany, [>], [>]–[>]
dressing up, mother’s emphasis on, [>]
The Duke, the Diva, and the Dance program, [>]
Duke of Edinburgh, lunch with at Cambridge University, [>]–[>]
Duparc, Henri (“Phidylé”), [>]
Durham, NC, German studies, [>]
Duschak, Alice, [>]
Dylan, Bob, [>]–[>]
East Berlin, Germany
experience of, lessons from, [>]–[>]
helping a young singer defect, [>]–[>]
thriving art scene, [>]
visiting, [>]–[>]
education
parents’ emphasis on, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
quality of, in segregated schools, [>]–[>]
See also specific schools
Einstein, Albert, [>]
Eisenhower, President Dwight D., [>]–[>]
Elisabeth, in Tannhäuser (Wagner), operatic debut as, [>]–[>]
Ellington, Edward Kennedy “Duke”
accidental meeting with, [>]
The Duke and the Diva programs, [>]
exposure to through radio, [>]
quote about music, [>]
Sacred Ellington, [>]
sacred music, performance of, [>], [>]
emotions
communicating clearly to audience, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
and music as spirit, [>]
empathy, [>], [>]
endurance, building, [>]
energy
amount of needed to perform, [>]
exchanging with audience during performances, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]
Enid A. Haupt Conservatory, New York Botanical Garden, [>]–[>]
enjoyment, joy
from children, nephews, [>]–[>]
as component of Hinduism, [>]–[>]
enjoying the moment, [>]
from flowers/orchids, [>]
from instrumental music, jazz, [>]
from pleasing parents, [>]
from singing, performing, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]
from watching the impact of music on audiences, [>]
tears of joy, [>]
ensemble singing, [>]–[>], [>]
“Erlkönig” (“Erl-King”) (Schubert), [>]–[>]
Erwartung (Schoenberg)
correspondence between composer and librettist, [>]–[>]
as operatic treasure, [>]–[>]
Pappenheim’s libretto for, [>]
performances in Tokyo, [>]