To Tiger Shark and all other Fans of Jussi Bjoerling (ofwhich I am one),

I am delighted to see that there is some activity on this long dormant
discussion board. I thought it had been disbanded due to inactivity. To all of
those
who have just posted, I suggest you go to the following website
www.jussibjorlingsociety.com and check it out. Also there was an outstanding
biography
titled Jussi by Andrew Farkas ( in collabaration with his widow) which you can
maybe find in book stores or on Amazon, it is wonderful reading and gives all
sides of this very complex man whose voice is like none anybody else has ever
come close to sounding like.

It is a terrific website that is very active ( I am a member). I attend the
Fall 2002 convention in NYC and the 2004 convention in Washington DC and they
were both great. I come from a different perspective in that I heard him live
when I was 9 and a half years old at the old Met. It was in a performance of
Tosca and it was one of his last there - I saved the program. In these days
where marginal talent is hailed as great, it would have been interesting to see
how he would have been treated had he come along now and how he would have
handled it (read the Farkas book).

Regards to all,
Norman Hollander


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