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The HistoryMakers video oral history with Simon Estes.

Title
The HistoryMakers video oral history with Simon Estes.
Publication
Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]

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Details

Additional Authors
  • Estes, Simon
  • Hayden, Robert C.
  • Burghelea, Neculai
  • HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
Description
1 online resource (5 video files (2 hr., 2 min., 43 sec.)) : sound, color.
Summary
Opera singer Simon Estes was born on March 2, 1938, in Centerville, Iowa. Estes was the youngest of three siblings. Raised in a spiritually-centered family, Estes sang in his church choir as a young boy and continued throughout his youth. Estes began his university career as a pre-med student in 1957, at the University of Iowa. Upon graduating from the University of Iowa, Estes enrolled in the Julliard School of Music in 1964. In 1965, Estes made his professional debut at the Deutsche Opera in Berlin in the role of Ramfis in Aida. Some of his most memorable operatic performances have been performing for Archbishop Desmond Tutu in Cape Town, South Africa, and in the Flyin Dutchman and Porgy and Bess. Estes worked also as a voice, humanities, and foreign language professor at Iowa State University, Boston University, and Wartburg College. He is married to Ovida Strong.
Alternative Title
  • History Makers video oral history with Simon Estes
  • Simon Estes
Subject
  • Estes, Simon > Interviews
  • Estes, Simon
  • African Americans > Interviews
  • African Americans
  • Opera Singer
Genre/Form
  • Internet videos.
  • Interviews.
  • Nonfiction films.
  • Oral histories.
Credits (note)
  • Videographer, Neculai Burghelea.
OCLC
1003150400
Title
The HistoryMakers video oral history with Simon Estes.
Publisher
Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
Country of Producing Entity
United States naf
Playing Time
020243
Type of Content
two-dimensional moving image
Type of Medium
computer
Type of Carrier
online resource
Digital File Characteristics
video file
Performer
Robert Hayden, interviewer.
Credits
Videographer, Neculai Burghelea.
Event
Recorded Boston, Massachusetts 2006 February 6.
Source of description
Vendor-supplied metadata.
Connect to:
Available from home with a valid library card and onsite at NYPL
Indexed Term
Opera Singer.
Added Author
Estes, Simon, interviewee.
Hayden, Robert C., interviewer.
Burghelea, Neculai, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
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