HOLIDAY FUN!
December 2022, France 44 Wine and Spirits
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It's December, and festivities abound!
During this holiday season and throughout the year, Norah will be performing a wide variety of music for private parties and public business entertainment, with programs uniquely tailored to each occasion. Interested in having Norah at your event? |
A Note from Norah
In-person is back. How does it feel? Thrilling? Unnerving? The pandemic has done both a lot of damage and a great service to the performing arts. We have lost performances, income streams, companies, and (most sadly) artists. At the same time, online performing arts opportunities have exploded. As we make our way back to crowded concert halls and jockeying between knees and seats to find our places before the lights go down, many now-reopened arts venues continue to remain vital online. I'm grateful for our arts community's good-humored resilience and tenacity. Here's to a healthier, even more creative and curious future for the arts. May you and your community also be healthy, creative and curious as we continue to navigate together.
Sing out loud,
Sing out loud,
We sing when our hearts are too full for speech."Transparency and integrity are core values in my life and work. On stage, no matter the genre, I strive for a sense of holistic integrity, and I burrow deep to ground each performance choice in reality and honesty. As a singer-actor, I strive tenaciously for a seamlessly-integrated performance, one in which you will know that, when that character sings, it is because their emotions have outgrown spoken word, and when they dance, it is because no movement less expressive will do."
With over 100 leading roles under her belt, Minneapolis-based Norah Long has built an award-winning performance career spanning genres of classical and contemporary drama, musical theater, opera, film, and concert stage. Norah also works as a stage director, music director, teacher, and composer. For more, visit her Biography page.
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PRIVATE COACHING SESSIONS
Purpose, presence, power — all are essential for an impactful performance!
Hone your singing, acting, or public speaking technique with private coaching sessions.
Voice, theater, and business presentation sessions with Norah are available at all levels of experience, both online and in-person.
Norah has been on theater and voice faculty for NCU's College of Fine Arts since 2015. Formerly, she was a founding member and Lead Teaching Artist with Upstream Arts for 10 years, offering multidisciplinary arts-based curriculum to individuals with disabilities to strengthen social, communication, and self-advocacy skills.
Hone your singing, acting, or public speaking technique with private coaching sessions.
Voice, theater, and business presentation sessions with Norah are available at all levels of experience, both online and in-person.
Norah has been on theater and voice faculty for NCU's College of Fine Arts since 2015. Formerly, she was a founding member and Lead Teaching Artist with Upstream Arts for 10 years, offering multidisciplinary arts-based curriculum to individuals with disabilities to strengthen social, communication, and self-advocacy skills.
Hi-Lake Initiatives: A Retrospective
As the COVID-19 pandemic hit and following George Floyd's murder in 2020 which left Norah's neighborhood with deep wounds and needs, Norah spearheaded a cluster of community projects called Hi-Lake Initiatives. Here are some of those stories.
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KUDOS
Norah's "intensely committed" Magda received rave reviews and thundering ovations in Gian Carlo Menotti's gripping and eerily relevant 20C opera The Consul.
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Regional Emmy [Winner] 2018 HISTORIC/CULTURAL/NOSTALGIC - PROGRAM: Nature: Walking with Emerson and Thoreau, Tiger Lion Arts
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Best Actress in a Play: Norah Long, Marie in Lombardi at St. Paul's History Theatre
Best Supporting Actress in a Musical: Norah Long, Mother Superior in Sister Act at Chanhassen Dinner Theaters; 256 performances
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Merchandise
CD - View from Violet Hill
$10.00
includes Norah's thrilling arrangement of A Mighty Fortress created with Bill Chouinard on 108-rank Casavant Pipe Organ and featured on National Public Radio's Pipedreams.
Inspired by her family legacy, the packaging includes an 8-page full-color booklet with lyrics, stories, and photos. Featuring an array of notable musicians and rich instrumentations, listen for a cameo group-sing with The Okee Dokee Brothers, Jennifer Grimm, and others!
Tracks:
This Is My Father's World
Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing
A Lord-Built House
Kindness, Kindness, Kindness
It Is Well with My Soul
A Mighty Fortress Is Our God
Be Thou My Vision
In the Sweet By and By
Amazing Grace
Here's One
How Great Thou Art
His Eye Is On the Sparrow
Earth's Last Picture
15 songs, 59 minutes
Inspired by her family legacy, the packaging includes an 8-page full-color booklet with lyrics, stories, and photos. Featuring an array of notable musicians and rich instrumentations, listen for a cameo group-sing with The Okee Dokee Brothers, Jennifer Grimm, and others!
Tracks:
This Is My Father's World
Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing
A Lord-Built House
Kindness, Kindness, Kindness
It Is Well with My Soul
A Mighty Fortress Is Our God
Be Thou My Vision
In the Sweet By and By
Amazing Grace
Here's One
How Great Thou Art
His Eye Is On the Sparrow
Earth's Last Picture
15 songs, 59 minutes
CD - Sweethearts of Song
$12.00
Beloved duets of Nelson Eddy and Jeanette MacDonald, MGM's original sweethearts, performed by soprano Norah Long, and baritone Peter Halverson, and accompanied on piano by Skylark Opera Artistic Director Steve Stucki. Long's crystalline soprano and Halverson's warm baritone glisten with nuance and emotional transparency. A not-to-miss for the operetta lover and collector of limited edition recordings!
tracks include:
Sweethearts, Indian Love Call, Dear Little Cafe, I'll See You Again, Wanting You, One Kiss-Stouthearted Men, She Didn't Say Yes, The Desert Song, Only a Rose, Love Me Tonight, Sympathy, The Merry Widow Waltz, Ah Sweet Mystery of Life, Italian Street Song, My Hero, Will You Remember
16 songs, 1 hour 4 minutes
tracks include:
Sweethearts, Indian Love Call, Dear Little Cafe, I'll See You Again, Wanting You, One Kiss-Stouthearted Men, She Didn't Say Yes, The Desert Song, Only a Rose, Love Me Tonight, Sympathy, The Merry Widow Waltz, Ah Sweet Mystery of Life, Italian Street Song, My Hero, Will You Remember
16 songs, 1 hour 4 minutes
Paint Our Peace Face Mask
$7.00
Powerful original art reproduced from Hi-Lake Initiatives' Paint our Peace community murals from the summer of 2020. This mural entitled "Hello, My Name Is" measured 8' x 8'. Sold at cost.
3-layer mask: 2 layers of black cotton with one outer layer of polyester. Cotton layers: 95% 150gsm cotton, 5% spandex. Polyester layer: 93% 170gsm polyester, 7% spandex. Black trim. Approximate size: 7'W x 5"H. Machine Wash, Do Not Bleach, Tumble Dry.