24-hour marathon in honor of the late Jon Vickers today on WKCR-FM, the radio station of Columbia University. Listen in New York at 89.9 or online at wkcr.org.
https://www.cc-seas.columbia.edu/wkcr/story/jon-vickers-memorial-broadcast
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Jon Vickers Dies Opera Loses a Titan
Hours after I posted about Nicolai Gedda defying rumors of his death to celebrate his 90th birthday today, word emerges that we’ve lost Jon Vickers.
http://www.roh.org.uk/news/canadian-born-tenor-jon-vickers-dies
Here’s Vickers as Siegmund in the Todesverkündigung from “Die Walküre” (with Birgit Nilsson):
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