George Jellinek 1919 - 2010

George Jellenick

New York Times Obituary

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/20/arts/music/20jellinek.html

a 2007 article

audio, in several parts, of Jellenick interviewing Virginia Zeani

excerpt of a Jellenick article on Zinka Milanov in Opera Quarterly

http://oq.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/pdf_extract/7/1/111

George Jellinek At Home

George Jellinek gave us all the gift of his "The Vocal Scene" program on WQXR (and others - it was syndicated on radio stations all over). The show was wonderful. He is wonderful.

Jellinek comes into riverrun from time to time to buy books and records. Since he retired from his show in 2004, he hasn't been adding much to his collections. In fact, now Chris visits him from time to time to time to buy books and records.

George Jellinek has a work study filled with books, records, CDs and photographs of opera stars he knows.

This is the computer where he writes. Just to the left of the computer, under the desk's glass top, is a photograph of his family - parents, sister, and self. He is the young man standing on the right.

This afternoon George and Hedy Jellinek welcomed both Chris and me into their home. I took pictures. They were quite gracious and it was fun.

Books by George Jellinek:

My Road to Radio and The Vocal Scene: Memoir of an Opera Commentator

History Through the Opera Glass: From the Rise of Caesar to the Fall of Napoleon

Callas: Portrait of a Prima Donna

an intriguing list of articles by Jellinek for Fanfare magazine, (articles themselves available to members)

New Yorker article on Jellinek