In the Spring of 1978, Studs Terkel spent a musical hour with African-American operatic soprano Barbara Hendricks. They spoke of her meteorically rising career, played some of her recordings of works by Schubert and Gershwin, and reminisced about her mentor, Jennie Tourel.
Barbara Hendricks (04/03/1978)
Barbara Hendricks (Photo: Denise Grünstein, CC BY 3.0, cropped, via Wikimedia Commons)