Today would be the birthday of the late, great Jessye Norman, beloved American soprano.
http://nyfos.org/gustav-mahler-ich-bin-der-welt-abhanden-gekommen/
I am dead to the world’s tumult,
And I rest in a quiet realm!
I live alone in my heaven,
In my love and in my song.
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