BY WALTER OPINDE The exceptionally gifted black American soprano, Jessye Norman, in 1961, received a scholarship to study at the Howard University in Washington, D.C., where she had vocal lessons from Carolyn Grant. She continued her training at the Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore and at the University of Michigan, where her principal teachers […]

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