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The Grammy Award-winning opera star describes her childhood in the segregated South, the community values and role models that shaped her ambitions, her meteoric rise at the Berlin Opera and the accomplishments that have established her as one of America's most decorated singing artists.
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Boston ; New York :
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt,
2014.
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Table of Contents:
- "Great Day!"
- 1.
- In the beginning
- Widmung
- "I want two wings"
- 2.
- A mother's joy
- Ave Maria
- "Ev'ry time I feel the spirit"
- 3.
- A father's pride
- Isolde's Liebestod
- "There is a balm in Gilead"
- 4.
- Church, spirituals, and spirit
- Die Allmacht
- "Sometimes I feel like a motherless child"
- 5.
- Racism as it lives and breathes
- "My Lord, what a morning"
- Interlude: Marian Anderson
- Erlkönig
- "On my journey, now"
- 6.
- Growing up in Germany
- O namenlose Freude
- "Oh glory!"
- 7.
- The singing craft as art form
- L'île inconnue
- "The Lord's prayer"
- 8.
- The song, the craft, the spirit, and the joy!
- Sanctus
- "Ride on, King Jesus"
- 9.
- Woman, life, singer
- His eye is on the sparrow
- "He's got the whole world in his hand"
- 10.
- And the journey continues
- Postlude
- Coda
- Zueignung.