James Justice (Tenor)

Born: Erie, Pennsylvania, USA

The American tenor, James Justice, received his early training at the Philadelphia Musical Academy. He studied for the Diploma at Juilliard School of Music in New York and a student in the class of Hans Heinz. As an instrumentalist he was a member of the Erie Philharmonic under Fritz Mahler and as a singer he appeared on various nation-wide television and radio shows, was a vocal soloist with the Seventh Infantry Division Band and in 1954 was national winner of the All -Army Singing Contest.

Source: Programme note to the concert "J.S. Bach: The Passion according to St. John" at Juilliard School of Music (March 20, 1959)
Contributed by Aryeh Oron (September 2019)

Recordings of Bach Cantatas & Other Vocal Works

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Frederik Prausnitz

Tenor

[V-3] (1959, Audio): BWV 245 [sung in English]

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