The Jussi Björling Legacy has been indelibly documented by Harald Henrysson. A link to his chronology of recordings is among the invaluable contributions to the Jussi Björling Centennial Celebration. With additional thanks to Harald, here is a condensation of his exhaustive record of over 300 events and products acknowledging Jussi Björling’s 100th Birthday. Our hats are off to both. Thank you, Harald.

The full list represented by this summary in a pdf file may be found Events in Jussi’s Memory 2010-2011.

Statistical survey of the information in this list – Harald Henrysson

Events, radio or television programs are noted from 15 countries: Austria, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Great Britain, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Latvia, Norway, South Africa, Sweden, Switzerland, USA.

163 concerts

These include mixed programs like Raymond Björling’s concerts where he also talked about his grandfather and Mats Carlsson’s concerts where Bertil Bengtsson contributed with Björling presentations.

78 lectures, CD presentations, discussions, etc.

Individual concerts and programs during the two conferences included in the respective figures above.

47 radio or televison programs

Besides complete programs, those where an important part was devoted to JB are included. For program series, the individual parts are counted. Concert broadcasts are included. Repeats are not counted.

5 exhibitions

Vienna Opera; Stockholm Royal Opera; Danish embassy, Stockholm; Borlänge Municipal Library; Stockholm Concert Hall (a smaller version of the latter exhibition was shown at the JB conference in Stockholm and continued to tour 7 places in Sweden)

5 books and web publications

• Jussi: sången, människan, bilderna (edited by Jacob Forsell)
• Tills vingen brister (revised edition of Yrsa Stenius’ book)
• Jussi i Roslagens famn (about his life on Siarö)
• Björling’s known recordings and their CD and DVD issues (partial revision of Harald Henrysson’s A Jussi Björling Phonography, published on the website of the Jussi Björling Museum: www.borlange.se/templates/BlgPage____65925.aspx (304-pages)
• The Björling Voice (book by Stephen Hastings, scheduled for publication in May)

9 CD & DVD releases

Jussi Björling Anniversary (Naxos)

Jussi Björling Live (4) (WHRA)

Rösten vi älskar (CD enclosed with the book Jussi: sången, människan, bilderna)

Jussi på Gröna Lund (3) (Bluebell)

Jussi Björling: The Complete RCA Album Collection (14) (RCA/Sony)

Jussi: musikurval och text av Björn Ranelid (X5)

Jussi Björling Collection (11) (Naxos; scheduled for release in February)

Jussi Björling in USA and Finland (2) (Bluebell; title tentative; not yet released)

Jussi i våra hjärtan (DVD with Torbjörn Lindqvist’s documentary)

The Borlänge school musical Jakten på Jussi was inspired by the Jussi Björling jubilee.