The Bumbry Way : A Career Conversation WITH Grace Bumbry | Documentary
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- čas přidán 28. 08. 2024
- Legendary classical singer Grace Bumbry recently sat down with Black Music Archive to discuss her beginning, career, favorite roles and more!
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Credits
Director - Milik Kashad
Executive Producer - Milik Kashad
Producer - Matt Brown
Assistant Producers - Jada Woodard, Sherrod Horne, Darien Meggett, Nicolas Harris
Interviewers - Milik Kashad, Matt Brown
Video Editor - Milik Kashad
Motion Graphics - Milik Kashad
Voiceover - Milik Kashad
Script - Milik Kashad, Matt Brown
Graphic Design - Milik Kashad
Photo Editing and Retouching - Milik Kashad
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As of May 7, 2023, this has become even more treasured archival footage. She was simply phenomenal. She truly loved her art, and she loved encouraging emerging young artists. Rest Easy, Grace Melzia Bumbry.
8:04 “lemme tell you, i was the first black everything!” iktr! talk your ISHT madam bumbry!
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Thank you, GRACE BUMBRY for doing your part to help tame mankind with your gift and talent. Your legacy is secured.
What a lady! I thought we were going to enjoy her physical presence between us some longer, but we can still enjoy all these documents of her high art. Honour to Grace Bumbry!
This was amazing. Can we have Leontyne Price next!???
I would literally fall out of my seat and jump for joy.
@@lorettahoffmann4226 so would I. Ms. Price is alive and well. She lives in Maryland with family and just turned 95 years young last February !!
Please do it !!🙏🙏🙏
@@christopheryoung5032I'm glad to know she is in Maryland. She used to be seen often in Greenwich Village where she resided for many years.
I was blessed to hear Madame Bumbry many times at the Metropolitan Opera. I also heard her legendary concert at Carnegie Hall with Shirley Verrett. I loved her very much in Salome. She is a great artist of the highest caliber.
Someone should do a full scale documentary. And a biography. Extraordinary woman… extraordinary career! Thank you for this, it’s wonderful!
First Melba Moore who I knew a lot about and now I’m discovering Grace Bumbry for the first time.
I love this channel
Wait a minute! Ms. Bumbry is 85! She looks good!
Great interview with the legendary, Grace Bumbry! I'd love to see an interview with Leona Mitchell, Kathleen Battle, Florence Quivar and of course, the great Leontyne Price!!
Oh, please, there are certain ladies in that list with whom Mrs Bumbry doesn't deserve to be listed.
@@DiomedesDioscuro Oh really! Which ones don't deserve to be on the list? EVERY lady listed had stellar careers and are extraordinary vocal artists, in my opinion.
@@charlesdotson4766 In my opinion no one is near Bumbry in quality. But in particular Battle or Mitchell... 😬
Come on with these legendary convos. I love it. So many people are going to be introduced to a wonderful black figure in music.
I was shaking when I realized what this video was about… Oh my God!
Beautiful singing at the end there, with “this little light of mine“.
What a great interview! She still looked so lively and youthful and was so active and updated in her use of social media that I was truly expecting she'd be with us a little longer, but I'm really glad to know she had enough time to be acquainted with so many of her fans from all over the world through the internet, and that people, including those behind this channel, valued her ample legacy and made sure she knew how important she was for a lot of people from later generations and what an amazing treasure of artistic lessons in such a versatile array of roles and reference recordings (studio and live ones) she left for us. RIP, Grace Bumbry! A real legend that I hope will inspire others to follow on her great path.
An incredible singer, and an incredible life!
She is my FAVORITE classical singer!!! She is amazing! Does she still teach?
And you did let your light shine, everywhere you went. Sleep in Heavenly Peace. Give Shirley our love.
OMG Black Music Archive.. MORE MORE POSTINGS PLEASE! YOU ARE DOING JUSTICE HERE WITH EDUCATING! MY HAT'S DOWN TO THIS PAGE. SUBSCRIBED.
Brava! I remember her from her Carmen and was enraptured ever since, such a wonderful interview!!
Ok. This is a get. Grace, Leontyne, Shirley, Martina and Jessye are opera royalty. I heard her song the Wesendonck lieder at the Wigmore Hall while I was a student. It was extraordinary.
I'm so enchanted by her accent. I'm wondering how it came to be.
living in europe so young til present day and singing classically probably. we adapt to wherever we are ✨
@@ThePopAttic I figured. I love how she sounds.
@@ThePopAttic Much like Ms. Eartha Kitt
At times....doesn't she sound like Tina Turner?
@@az0963818 Yes she does! Living abroad also gave Tina her accent.
RIP Ms. Bumbry
this was amazing!!!!! Thank you for highlightling our legends!!!
Prima Diva: " I don't need to cover." Smart!! Her soft palate is naturally lifted. No need to always cover, it CAN darken. This is where A LOT of singers mess up. Trying to cover when not needed. Period 🎉🎉🎉🎉 true diva will be missed. Thank you for your ART
Sincere Condolences Iconic Singer
Man, you continue understanding our sensitivity in needing a channel such as yours…thank you for this! ❤️
A phenomenal interview on a truly phenomenal operatic mega star! Thank you for this feast.
BMA- thank for this!!!Grace is a National Treasure I never heard of!!! What an abomination- I have tears in my eyes!!
Thank you Ma’am for blessing us with talent and wisdom of your parents
Godspeed!!!
Wow, she sounded good at singing contemporary music. That’s not usually the case with classical singers.
Oh my God! I guessed that she was influenced by Shirley Bassey before she said it… She was sounding so much like Shirley! Ha ha.
I’ve found that African -American mezzos are the best at transitioning into other styles (ex. Maria Ewing, Jessye Norman). They seem to be chameleons!
I so agree with you on this one ☝🏾 most don’t sound the same or good when transitioning genres.
She is my love for ever❤
Do y'all remember when he did that video on Tina Turner and he was like, "She got big nose, a big mouth, big cheeks ... she got a big face." and he was like, 'and that makes a big sound'.? Well that same thing goes for Ms. Bumbry. She had such a big sound because she has a big face. She has a big strong sound. Don't no sound like that come from no tiny face.
That's not how it works. Listen to Franco Corelly. Big voice smaller face.
It's the training that's important.
@@Ignasimp :: His speaking voice wasn't very "big" either ... but dear God, his singing voice ... well, you know ... everyone knows !
Milik, your channel is a TRUE GEM!🔥🔥🔥🔥
Wonderful stuff, but Grace Bumbry was *not* the first black artist to sing at the White House. Soprano Marie Williams sang there for Rutherford Hayes in 1878; Sissieretta Jones sang there for Benjamin Harrison in 1892 and subsequently for William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt. Plus the Fisk Singers performed there for Chester Alan Arthur as early as 1882, and returned thereafter. And, as I am sure Ms. Bumbry knows, there *were* internationally active Black opera singers before Price/Bumbry/Verrett: Caterina Jarboro, Jules Bledsoe, Camilla Williams, Leonora Lafayette and Mattiwilda Dobbs, to name some.
Incredible!
A true Black groundbreaker in a very specialized genre.
Or young uns should watch these kinds of videos to give honor to these grandmothers as well.
Brava La Bumbry!
That’s my Aunty!!! My last name is Hothem-Bumbry!
I absolutely love her!!!
my favorite opera singer and the voice is still there and her great beauty
Another great video! I get super excited watching your channel, I learn so much 🤗
Keep up the excellent work!! 👍🏾👌🏾
Great video, thank you!!
Thank you for interviewing this marvelous singer! I'm so glad I've found your channel. What was the next to last operatic piece she sang? She's wearing a gown with black sleeves and a red and purple decolette. Please talk to Leontyne Price next!
Much Gratitude
Beautiful job. 🥰
Thank for this long a waited interview
Thank you for these videos! I've learned about so many artists from your channel.
Wonderful! Made my day.
Thank you for the video.
Can we just get a few seconds of preview of what's next in every video you do?
they do post previews on their Instagram if i remember correctly
Wow, what a treasure
Really enjoyed this Interview great job BMA and Legendary Miss Grace Bumbry 🖤🤎🖤🤎🎼🎶
Your videos inspired me to get better at singing
Thank you so much for this remarkable presentation
Love Grace!! But I always thought her voice really was a mezzo with good high notes rather than a real soprano. Such a great lady!
8:00 perfect transition 😂 but bless her soul!!
Martina Arroyo, please?
This is amazing!!!
RIP ❤❤
Casta Diva!!!!!
An awesome documentary!
RIP
🌕 Thank you
So amazing
Had she been white she would been a mega superstar... gone but not forgotten RIP Grace Bumbry.
So we're just going to ignore Leontyne Price, Jessye Norman and the crazy diva Kathleen Battle???
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What is the name of the song at 8:16 ? It is so beautiful! A wonderful interview!!!
Dvorak - Cigánske melodie (Gypsy Songs), Op. 55. B. 104: No. 3: A les je tichy (And the Woods Are Silent)
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Very precious. But in order to illustrate vocally her success in Salomé or Gioconda, why using late versions where she is out of breath on the high notes (which is normal in 1988 in Gioconda.) Fabulous recordings of her exist from 1977- 78 that show her in top shape.
Official recordings are subject to copyright and are not worth risking losing my channel over.
@@BlackMusicArchive I understand, you are right...
but these videos too are licensed. The recordings to which I refer are live...Salomé in Cleveland with Solti. Gioconda at the Met or in Napoli.
Using an official met recording has already gotten me a copyright strike. So again, I apologize the selected clips were not satisfactory to you, but it is not worth losing my already compromised account over.
@@BlackMusicArchive ok.
This was wondderful
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