to Garrison Keillor's A Prairie Home Companion heard her singing the Flower Duet from Léo Delibes's Lakmé with the YMCO's Nicole Rodriguez. She also devotes a large part of her income to meeting the YMCO's running costs. She is involved, too, with similar enterprises inspired by Venezuela's El Sistema, such as the Longy School of Music's 'Side by Side' orchestra, with which she appeared in Cambridge, Massachusetts on March 20, 2015. In 2020, inspired by her experience of working with Jonathan Palant's Dallas Street Choir, von Stade launched the People's Choir of Oakland, which aims to do for her neighbourhood what Palant's organization has done for his: to use collaborative music-making to kindle a greater sense of dignity, hope and joy in people enduring homelessness. Headed by the soprano Nicolle Foland, the choir offers its guests a safe place to rehearse and perform for two hours a week with the support of a music director, a pianist and a music therapist. Forthcoming biography and movie Von Stade's authorized biography, Flicka by Richard Parlour, is scheduled for publication in the United States and the United Kingdom no later than 2025; a parallel documentary movie, Paper Wings, filmed by Nicolle Foland and Brian Staufenbiel while von Stade was developing her Oakland choir project, entered its post-production phase in late 2022. Recordings Von Stade has sung on more than a hundred recordings, including symphonic works, sacred music, operas, musicals, art songs, pop songs, folk songs, jazz and comedy. She has been nominated for a Grammy for best classical vocalist nine times, and her recordings have been honoured with two Grand Prix du Disque awards, the Deutsche Schallplattenpreis, Italy's Premio della Critica Discografica and "Best of the Year" citations in Stereo Review and Opera News. Her personal favourites among her albums are her Arthaus video and Decca audio recordings of Le nozze di Figaro, her EMI Pelléas et Mélisande, her Deutsche Grammophon Mahler Symphony No. 4, her pop album Flicka - Another side of Frederica von Stade and her jazz album Frederica von Stade sings Brubeck - Across your dreams. All of the von Stade recordings first released on vinyl have now been issued on compact disc as well, but five are difficult to find on CD except in boxed collections. These are Frederica von Stade Live!, available in the 18-CD set Frederica von Stade: The Complete Columbia Recital Albums (Sony, 2016), and Judith