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S53E1: The Magic of Grace Bumbry | Clip

Grace Bumbry’s Best Friend Watches Her as Carmen

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Felicia Weathers, a good friend of Grace Bumbry, watches her perform as Carmen in the 1968 film version of the opera.

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♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ Now listen to this.

This piano is fantastic!

So natural.

♪♪ Oh, now listen to this.

The next four bars.

♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ Yes, that's Grace right there.

Okay.

That shoulder was Grace.

♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ There you hear the future soprano.

That was the moment when you could hear that she was headed in that direction.

She didn't know it at that time.

♪♪ Thank you.

That was my favorite scene.

Because it had very little going on, but a heck of a lot going on from the inside out.

Yeah?

And funny enough, you could also see that in the eyes or the expression of Jon Vickers that he got it.

He got it.

Yeah.

That was obvious for me anyway.