Jessye Norman sings "Deep River" at Carnegie Hall

[@sunjoyrai]

This is the best rendition of the song. Jessye Norman;'s voice, the organ and the pacing...sublime perfection!

[@kkaosmusike1555]

I feel like I'm floating, listening to this piece. Unique. Powerful voice. Rest in Peace, Queen.

[@francisfischer7620]

Amen amen

[@gabiggz4482]

Rest in peace cousin...she was my grandma first cousin...my mom's second cousin.my 3rd cousin..I had fun the few times we were all together..I'll miss u.u and Emmie and grandma Mamie up there chilling I hope..love u see u again

[@soniastraley3669]

You my dear are blessed!

[@snapsnap1629]

No one has mentioned how brilliant the accompanist followed her too. Beautiful in every way

[@baizhanghuaihai2298]

There will never be another like her. Goddess of song. Rest sweetly, beautiful, powerful soul.

[@francisfischer7620]

Amen...with tears running down... Amen.

[@leshaunda]

Never be another one like her...NEVER

[@santiagovillalobos5913]

Allí the registres, magical voice. I agrer tour coment. Registros todos. Estoy totalmente de acuerdo con su comentario.😊

[@monimonica9529]

Gracias, Santiago. ☘️🕊🕯🙏

[@monimonica9529]

☘️🕊🕯🙏 Ameen, Ameen & Ameen!

[@lesleymcshanemitchell9651]

The Angels needed her back. Thanks for lending her to Us RIP Sweet lady

[@francisfischer7620]

You make me cry. Amen.

[@piustwelfth]

This was one of Marian Anderson's signature songs, and she (at age 93) was in the audience at Carnegie Hall that night.

[@janasteele9358]

Love that image/story

[@livianegidius9772]

Mis Anderson was her inspiration. GREAT !

[@francisfischer7620]

Amen.

[@kimhoitomt8527]

Our PBS just rebroadcasted this performance two days ago. OMG! I can’t get this one out of my head now. I love her doing this, maybe more than anyone else. ❤

[@piustwelfth]

@@kimhoitomt8527 I agree it's a great performance (also "Ride On King Jesus" and "You Can Tell the World"). If you haven't done so, check out Marian Anderson's version of "Deep River" and "O Lord, What a Morning".

[@julieburck9613]

There are no words…phenomenal. If you don’t feel that, you literally have no soul. Wow ❤

[@lucianobezerra4380]

Probably the most beautiful rendition of Deep River ever !

[@jacobmorris3664]

Lorraine Hunt Lieberson has a great one, too.

[@michaelgebauer5235]

I agree, that was an exceptional performance

[@deltasquared7777]

Mahalia's version is also remarkably beautiful

[@francisfischer7620]

Oh yes.

[@goretti5]

Please who is the composer?

[@sljackiesmom]

If you can get thru this without tears you must be made of stone.

[@dougr.2398]

I can appreciate the beauty and perfection as well as heartfelt emotion of this without tears now. I understand it in full

[@copperleaves]

Jessye Norman was magnificent.

[@Johnmag1976]

3 times i was Lucky to hear /see her in France .All théâtres were too small for such a Lady ❤

[@MelodyJacksonPatterson1975]

She definitely had that black girl magic..her poise..her voice just watching her now is so moving ..it is Thanksgiving day about 3 something am... so moving.ripower queen.

[@Vejur9000]

This woman was simply majestic. Diva.

[@davehobbs2217]

Wow. The spirituals must not be relegated to genre, or culture. They are altogether different... They are the absolute “beauty” of a crying soul clinging to faith.

[@TheBeverly7]

Dave Hobbs The spirituals are the songs of black slaves who had great hope! Even though that " hope" didn't save them from daily torture and humiliation from their Christian slave masters!!!!! And because of this it is uniquely black art form from a black experience! However , when you say " They are the absolute " beauty" of a crying soul clinging to faith" you have spoken the absolute truth!!!!!

[@tanyadixon3479]

Note, all slave masters weren't Christian. Remember that.

[@creolenatchitoches7832]

Yes!!! The Dark Night of the Soul.

[@pebbles5450]

Wym not relegate to a culture 🤨🤨

[@francisfischer7620]

How true

[@daireoshea6107]

Ive spent my entire life listening and playing classical music. This is the most extraordinary recording there is. I’m so tired of seeing racist, far -right rants on you tube. It makes me depressed. My own country Ireland has succumbed to this too. And then you find Jessye Norman- the very best of humanity. So good in fact that it reaches the divine. Her memory lives on.

[@lucianobezerra4380]

Watching again and again... It's now 2.021 and she's still greatly missed.

[@francoisbessing]

Absolutely impeccable from the first utterance to the final breath. Unmatched.

[@francisfischer7620]

True

[@cathykerr6779]

Sang this in my choir... but this is taken to new heavenly heights!!! The breathing.. phrasing.. color.. she never disappoints.. and that’s were I’m going also

[@paxguns]

Than you for posting. Some of our so-called screaming stars of today should listen to this great lady and learn how to sing.

[@francisfischer7620]

Amen

[@dianejulinmenges9546]

Too beautiful for words

[@iwillliftupmyeyes]

Once again she proved why I adored her and how she can lift your soul from the depths of darkness ,never loose faith in your self and never give up ,RIP

[@vinnywa]

She died much too soon, I miss her so much. Thanks for her performances on KZbin and my collection of her recordings.

[@elmermt]

The problem in America if you are not white you never hear for someones else talents, Mrs. Norman was hired to do my husbans funeral. but I guest I have to find someone else to sing her song, for the funeral. RIP

[@brattingprincess]

@@elmermt I am so sad.

[@DAS1962]

@@elmermt Sorry for your loss but I don't understand - Jessye died 30 September 2019 - your post is sometime September/October 2020 so I am struggling to understand the timeline? Also, Jessye was honoured the Keendy HOnours in 1995 and was highly recognised in the US and Europe (I should add I'm not American)

[@kolalesao9089]

I miss her too!!!

[@leshaunda]

@@DAS1962 yes this lady was and still loved my millions allllllll over the world. By all races. Her being black didn't stop her or them from loving her

[@dougr.2398]

Simply amazing.

[@margieguilfordwoman]

Jessye and I were neighbors a year or so ago...She could sing and literally blow the roof off!

[@zellenesmith5695]

Healing of the human spirit and this is God’s Voice beckoning thank you 🙏

[@violonwigmore1684]

Overwhelming singing. Only a phrase of her singing impresses me so deep. She was absolutely one of the most valuable treasures of our time.

[@dianeracer]

WOW. This song came up in my adult piano course book and I was unfamiliar with it so went searching for it should sound. I also had not heard of Jessye Norman - What a Soulful performance. Privileged to experience it, even it is only on KZbin. I can only imagine what it must have been like Live.

[@PeterBarber]

Absolutely stunning

Her voice is so beautiful. A mature motherly sound. I want to always sing opera, no matter how diffère it is for today

[@hwatabe]

What a moving, touching and soulful singing! Jessye Norman is my favorite gospel singer with Marian Anderson. (from Japan)

[@audreyabdo7719]

Such a beautiful majestic voice! ✨🙏✨

[@lorrainechandler7864]

Transndence.Thank You for sharing.💙💙

[@richardgornalle4536]

Magical singing. Wonderful performance of great song.

[@dwightmatthias7396]

In remembrance of you Ms Norman you have cross over to the land of peace and enjoying the feast amazing everyone with your angelic voice.

[@christineowe9073]

Wow. Just, wow.

[@francoisbessing]

Made even the simple sublime.

[@sagrarte1995]

Maravillosa, grande Jessye Norman. Sensibilidad, técnica y fe porque para cantar tan bien esta melodía hay que creer en lo que dice. Magistral. ¡Brava!

[@APR944]

So Beautiful 😭✨

[@janetbaker5962]

Missing this wonderful woman.

[@livianegidius9772]

RIP Angel! We will remember you forever ....You `ve gone too soon...

[@Carlos-qz7ul]

For the ages. Stones are weeping 😭 !

[@visteklBond]

Потрясающий голос, великолепная техника исполнения, душой наполнен каждый звук! Всевышний поцеловал Джесси Норман!

[@lucyfeissner7172]

Heavenly gift !-

[@madeleinegrannec7757]

eblouissante interprétation. Quelle beauté, elle est magnifique.

[@TheOrishas2009]

LOVE THIS SONG SHE IS AMAIZING 1000000TIMES AMAIZING

[@lisaadams4463]

From our slave Ancestors! We love and Thank You, Yah!

[@julavaughs1137]

Greetings from Barbados

[@ivanchoupenitch9112]

divinaaaaaa!

[@leandroferreiradossantosfo2293]

Deep river, my home is over Jordan, Deep river, Lord, I want to cross over into campground. Oh, don't you want to go to that gospel feast, That promised land where all is peace? Oh don't you want to go to that promised land, That land where all is peace? Deep river, my home is over Jordan, Deep river, Lord, I want to cross over into campground

[@diegorolling86]

I cried

[@puellaenaturalioasis]

we cried 💧

[@ivandiaz5566]

Que voz tan pura. ❤

[@malikfo1941]

Perfection!

[@fernandomouchrek9180]

Wonderful

[@funkmonster]

"DEEEEEEEP RIVVVEERRRRRR" - Clark Griswold

[@ivandiaz5566]

Perfecta !!!!

[@joao-geraldodamasceno1581]

divina...

[@zellenesmith5695]

I love this song from the movie starring Julie Andrews

[@joanancyjoventinocrispiano8538]

Amoooo❤

[@아몬드나무-l3l]

내가 아주 어렸을적부터 좋아하던 노래가 이분의 노래였나 봅니다

[@larryjones-emery807]

Hallelujah!

[@GodsChild4Ever446]

I honor her legacy

[@dementiacare.7177]

Singing this at choir atm

[@numetutelare]

Fantastica, l'unica che può stare al pari di Marian Anderson ... il contralto prediletto da Toscanini

[@jjlungdoc7472]

Agree 100%

[@dianagambacortarosati6680]

❤❤🙏🙏❤❤

[@youshine1]

Deep River - Jessye Norman at Carnegie Hall 깊고 깊은 강 (제씨 놀만이 카네기홀에서 English & Korean captions 영한자막) kzbin.info/www/bejne/i4nXknZ-lLF4pdE

[@somangjo899]

감사합니다 은혜 충만한 제시.....

[@MarcENicholson]

The great Jessye Norman. I just listened to her rendition of this song, next to Marilyn Anderson's. Both were great voices, but Anderson's rendition is more straightforward, less "artistic," and to be honest, I think Anderson had the better voice...at least in the lower contralto registers which are key in this song. But both are great and we are privileged to have had them (or at least their sound) in our lives.

[@niki-mars955]

❤️

[@rochellewarren5008]

💜💥☄️🌌

[@marisahelenaviscontiweingr9594]

🌺👏👏👏👏👏

[@bryanhunnicutt7811]

It's a shame that most church music is confined to the likes of jumpin' and jivin' contemporary jibberish. We are cheating our youth of beautiful, sacred music and it's glorious saving power.

[@송재유-w7b]

it's more than jakcson!!!

[@hwh1946]

OMG. i get it and I an not at all reiigous

[@jessicarobinson9037]

Omg i love this song so much i miss her so much and i didnt know her RIP love