Jami Rogers-Anderson

[2] She earned a Bachelor of Music degree from Boston University, graduating magna cum laude while studying under Phyllis Curtin.

[8] However, The Wall Street Journal opera critic Heidi Waleson found Rogers-Anderson's mechanical, while others felt that she struggled on occasion.

[3] Rogers-Anderson additionally appeared in The Barber of Seville, Rigoletto, La bohème, Candide, L'enfant et les sortilèges, The Tempest and countless other notable operas.

[3] She also recorded Elegy for Young Lovers in the role of Hilda Mack with Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France in Paris.

[4] The text of both Love Awakes Us and Knoxville: Summer of 1915 is taken from the poetry of legendary Knoxville-born poet James Agee, after whom the music building at Rogers-Anderson's high school was named.