It was an unusual outburst for a classical music concert: an audience member shouted out “Wow!” at the very end of Mozart’s “Masonic Funeral Music,” performed by the Handel and Haydn Society in Boston. The group’s president and CEO, David Snead, was determined to find out who had broken audience protocol in such a forthright way. The answer to his query proved very surprising, as Steve Hartman discovered. Source
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Nature: Elk
“Sunday Morning” takes us to Point Reyes National Seashore in California, a safe home for Tule Elk, hunted nearly to extinction in the 1800s. Videographer: Lee McEachern. Source
His grandfather’s war: David Eisenhower on the general and D-Day
How Gen. Dwight Eisenhower, Supreme Allied Commander of the 1944 invasion of Normandy, made the decision that would help free the continent from Nazi occupation Source
Broadway star Andrew Rannells
It’s been seven years since Andrew Rannells left the hit Broadway show, “The Book of Mormon,” for which he earned his first Tony Award nomination. He has since starred in several TV series, and authored a memoir, “Too Much Is Not Enough: A Memoir of Fumbling Toward Adulthood.” Faith Salie talked with Rannells about how he found the spotlight. Source
Passage: Dr. John
Musician and songwriter Malcolm John Rebennack Jr, known by his stage name Dr. John, mixed blues, jazz, rock, and faux voodoo in a musical gumbo all his own. Mo Rocca reports on the passing of a true son of New Orleans. Source
Broadway’s Andrew Rannells: “Too Much Is Not Enough”
The Tony-nominated star of “The Book of Mormon” has authored a memoir about his “fumbling toward adulthood” Source
Passage: Remembering Dr. John
Malcolm John Rebennack Jr was a true son of New Orleans, mixing blues, jazz, rock, and faux voodoo in a musical gumbo all his own Source
Gloria Gaynor on her “Testimony”
Four decades after her signature song, “I Will Survive,” hit #1 and became an anthem of endurance, the 69-year-old singer has released her first gospel album Source
Calendar: Week of June 10
From Race Across America to Anne Frank Day, “Sunday Morning” takes a look at some notable events of the week ahead. Jane Pauley reports. Source
“Bred simply to be shot”: Inside America’s exotic hunting industry
Texas ranches stock their grounds with exotic animals like wildebeest, and hunters pay thousands of dollars to shoot them Source