Hello, I'm Kirstie Young, and this is a podcast from the Desert Island Discs archive.

For rights reasons, we've had to shorten the music.

The program was originally broadcast in 1977, and the presenter was Roy Plumlee. This week our cast who as the singer, Grace Bumbrey.

Miss Bumbrey, what have you been doing on your present visit to London?

I know you've been singing Richard Strauss's salamet at Cobengarden.

What else? Yes, but when I first came here we did the

opera Don Carlos where I sang the role of Princess Aboli. There were six performances

of that. You're a fairly frequent visitor to London nowadays.

Yes I am and I'm enjoying it very much.

Now, the first of your eight Desert Island discs, what should be?

The first I believe would be Errol Garner. Teach me tonight I'd like from

his concert by the sea. Why do you choose that?

Is something really quite special for me because way back when I was a student at Boston University.

It was one of my very favorite songs. This is 1955.

And it's something quite very special and very private for me. The The Oh, I'm not. Okay. The Errol Garner,

Garner, teach me tonight.

Did you find it hard to choose just eight records to last what may be a long, long time.

Yes, that's really quite a chore because there's so many other things that one could choose. There's so many beautiful things, so many things that are impressive.

But you know, you have to stop somewhere

and as I love piano music and I love cello and I love also orchestral music. I didn't really know what to do, but I think my main

instrument would be the piano and the voice. So those are the two categories that I chose from.

How well could you adapt yourself to loneliness for a long time?

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