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PROGRAM #: SOA 11-01 AIRS on WUOT: October 1, 2013 American PROGRAM #: SOA 11-01 AIRS ON WUOT: October 1, 2013 American Characters Songs about real and fictional characters in American history, including poets, preachers, and a president. The program introduces topics heard throughout the series. Francis Hopkinson: My Days Have Been So Wondrous Free (Thomas Hampson, baritone; Wolfram Rieger, piano) THM 5432 Stephen Foster: Willie We Have Missed You (Rosalind Rees, soprano; David Starobin, guitar) Vox Allegretto 8167 Henry T. Burleigh: Ethiopia Saluting the Colors (Thomas Hampson, baritone; Craig Rutenberg, piano) EMI/Angel 0946 3 341645 2 8 Walter Damrosch: Danny Deever (David Bispham, baritone; unknown pianist) Private recording Aaron Copland, arr.: The Dodger from Old American Songs (William Warfield, baritone; Aaron Copland, piano) Sony 7464-60899-2 Vachel Lindsay: General William Booth Enters Into Heaven (Vachel Lindsay reading his own poem) Caedmon/TC 1041 Sidney Homer: General William Booth Enters Into Heaven (Thomas Hampson, baritone; Craig Rutenberg, piano) THM 5432 Charles Ives: Charlie Rutlage (Thomas Hampson, baritone; Craig Rutenberg, piano) Ravinia 2009 recital recording Arthur Farwell: Song of the Deathless Voice (Thomas Hampson, baritone; Craig Rutenberg, piano) Ravinia 2009 recital recording Libby Larsen: A Working Woman (Terry Rhodes, soprano; Benton Hess, piano) Albany Records TROY 634 Aaron Copland: Why Do They Shut Me Out of Heaven? (Joyce DiDonato, mezzo-soprano; David Zobel, piano) Eloquentia 504 Elie Siegmeister: Madam and the Census Man (Esther Hinds, soprano; Alan Mandel, piano) CRI 814 John Duke: Richard Cory (Donald Gramm, baritone; Donald Hassard, piano) New World Records 80243 Michael Daugherty: Letter to Mrs. Bixby (Thomas Hampson, baritone; Craig Rutenberg, piano) Ravinia 2009 recital recording PROGRAM #: SOA 11-02 AIRS ON WUOT: October 8, 2013 Stephen Foster "Stephen Foster's music is the trunk of the tree of American song, sturdy with songs we love to sing," says Thomas Hampson. In this program we explore Foster's music, the varied artistic roots he drew from, and the musical branches that grew from his work. Interviewee: Ken Emerson, author of Doo-Dah! Stephen Foster and the Rise of American Popular Culture Stephen Foster: Open Thy Lattice, Love (Thomas Hampson, baritone; Jay Ungar, mandolin; Molly Mason, bass; David Alpher, piano) EMI 54621. Stephen Foster: Oh! Susanna (Matthew Sabatella and the Rambling String Band); Ballad of America, Volume 2 Stephen Foster: Camptown Races (Pete Seeger, singer and guitar) Smithsonian Folkways American Favorite Ballads Volume 2 SFW40151. Louis Moreau Gottschalk: Le Banjo (Philip Martin, piano) Hyperion 66459 Charles Ives: Symphony #2, fifth movement (New York Philharmonic, Leonard Bernstein) Sony Classical 60202 Thomas Moore: Oft in the Stilly Night, arranged by John Stevenson (Maggie Teyte, soprano) Pearl 9326 Stephen Foster: Ah! May the Red Rose Live Alway! (Thomas Hampson, baritone; Jay Ungar, violin; Molly Mason, bass and guitar; David Alpher, piano) Angel 54621 Gaetano Donizetti: Tu che a Dio spiegasti l'ali from Lucia di Lammermoor (José Carreras, tenor; New Philharmonia Orchestra, Jesús López-Cobos) London 470421; CD 2 Stephen Foster: Jeanie With the Light Brown Hair (Marilyn Horne, mezzo-soprano; Osian Ellis, harp) London 417 242 Stephen Foster: Nelly Was a Lady (Thomas Hampson, baritone; Craig Rutenberg, piano) THM 5432 Stephen Foster: Old Folks at Home arranged by Antonin Dvorak (Arthur Woodley, baritone; Collegiate Chorale and Harmonie Ensemble, Steven Richman) Music & Arts 4926 Ray Charles: Swanee River Rock (Ray Charles, singer) The Best of Ray Charles: The Atlantic Years, Rhino Records George Gershwin: Swanee (Al Jolson) The Great Al Jolson, PIMO 6044; CD 2 Stephen Foster: Comrades, Fill No Glass for Me (Thomas Hampson, baritone; Jay Ungar, Evan Stover, violins; Molly Mason, guitar; David Alpher, piano) Angel 54621 Stephen Foster: Hard Times Come Again No More (Willie Nelson, singer and guitar; Darol Anger, fiddle; David Grisman, mandolin; Phillip Aaberg, keyboard) Six Degrees/Island, album: Heritage Stephen Foster: Beautiful Dreamer (Thomas Hampson, baritone; Jay Ungar, violin; Molly Mason, guitar; David Alpher, piano) Angel 54621 PROGRAM #: SOA 11-03 AIRS ON WUOT: October 15, 2013 Song of Walt Whitman Whitman, the "Bard of Democracy," was the founder of a new American language. With music built deep into his poetry, it's no surprise that Whitman has been a beacon for American composers. Ernst Bacon: The Commonplace (William Sharp, baritone; John Musto, piano) CRI 890 Charles Ives: Walt Whitman (Thomas Hampson, baritone; Craig Rutenberg, piano) EMI Classics 0094635823929 Gerald Busby: Behold This Swarthy Face (Thomas Hampson, baritone; Craig Rutenberg, piano) EMI Classics 0094635823929 Elinor Remick Warren: We Two (Thomas Hampson, baritone; Craig Rutenberg, piano) Angel/EMI09463 416452 Robert Strassburg: Prayer of Columbus (Thomas Hampson, baritone; Craig Rutenberg, piano) EMI Classics 0094635823929 Gaetano Donizetti: Ange si pur from La Favorita (Ramon Vargas, tenor; Munich Radio Orchestra, Marcello Viotti) RCA/BMG 74321 66229 2 Ned Rorem: O You Whom I Often and Silently Come (Susan Graham, mezzo-soprano; Malcolm Martineau, piano) EMI 54621 Philip Dalmas: As I Watch'd the Ploughman Plowing (Thomas Hampson, baritone; Craig Rutenberg, piano) EMI Classics 0094635823929 Kurt Weill: Dirge for Two Veterans (Thomas Hampson, baritone; Craig Rutenberg, piano) Angel/EMI09463 416452 Charles Naginski: Look Down Fair Moon (Thomas Hampson, baritone; Craig Rutenberg, piano) EMI Classics 0094635823929 William Harold Neidlinger: Memories of Lincoln (Thomas Hampson, baritone; Craig Rutenberg, piano) EMI Classics 0094635823929 Leonard Bernstein: To What You Said (Thomas Hampson, baritone; Craig Rutenberg, piano) Angel/EMI09463 416452 Ernst Bacon: One Thought Ever At the Fore (Thomas Hampson, baritone; Wolfram Rieger, piano) Orfeo d'Or C707062 PROGRAM #: SOA 11-04 AIRS ON WUOT: October 22, 2013 Many Are the Voices Many Americans have had to raise their voices to be recognized or even heard in America. In this program, we hear songs of African Americans and Native Americans; women, immigrants, and war resisters; and voices from the labor movement and the gay rights movement. J John Rosamond Johnson: Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing arranged by William Grant Still (Robert Honeysucker, baritone; Videmus chamber ensemble) New World Records 80399 Hermann Reutter: Song for a Dark Girl (Thomas Hampson, baritone; Malcolm Martineau, piano) Orfeo d'Or C 707 062; CD 2 John Musto: Silhouette (Paul Sperry, tenor; Irma Vallecillo, piano) Albany Records TROY 081 Arthur Farwell: Inketunga's Thunder Song (William Parker, baritone; William Huckaby, piano) New World Records 80463 Charles Ives: The Indians (Susan Graham, mezzo-soprano; Pierre-Laurent Aimard, piano) Teldec/Warner Classics 2564-60297-2 Peter LaFarge: The Ballad of Ira Hayes (Pete Seeger, singer and guitar) FW 3044 Amy Marcy Beach: Within Thy Heart (Patrick Mason, baritone; Joanne Polk, piano) Bridge 9182 Ruth Crawford Seeger: Chinaman, Laundryman (Lucy Shelton, soprano; Reinbert de Leeuw, piano) DG 000289 449 9252 6 Earl Robinson: Joe Hill (Paul Robeson, bass-baritone; Alan Booth, piano) MCD (or MON) 61580 Marc Blitzstein: Joe Worker from the film soundtrack for Cradle Will Rock (Audra McDonald, soprano; Steven Tyler, piano) BMG 902700 Ned Rorem: The Real War Will Never Get in the Books (Donald Gramm, bass-baritone; Eugene Istomin, piano) PHCD 116 Elie Siegmeister: Official Notice (Esther Hinds, soprano; Alan Mandel, piano) NWCR814 Donald Wheelock: Fury from The AIDS Quilt Songbook (William Parker, baritone; Alan Marks, piano) Harmonia 907602 Michael Tilson Thomas: We Two Boys Together Clinging (Thomas Hampson, baritone; Craig Rutenberg, piano) EMI 7243 5 55028 2 7 Traditional: Oh, Freedom (Odetta, singer) Rykodisc 1004 (1996 CD) or V.I. Music 450661 (2005 CD) PROGRAM #: SOA 11-05 AIRS ON WUOT: October 29, 2013 War Cries Throughout our history, America has gone to war with bravado and with anguish. Songs have helped shape those emotions, and express them-inspiring us to battle, sustaining our courage, giving us a way to lament our losses. Charles Ives: In Flanders Field (Thomas Hampson, baritone; Wolfram Rieger, piano) THM 5432 Joseph Warren, text: Song on Liberty (Sherrill Milnes, baritone; Jon Spong, harpsichord) New World Records 80276 Andrew Law: The American Hero/Bunker Hill (Western Wind) WW1776 John Stafford Smith: The Star Spangled Banner (Reinald Werrenrath, baritone; orchestra conducted by Josef Pasternack) Julia Ward Howe: Battle Hymn of the Republic (Louise Homer, contralto; orchestra unidentified) Romophone 87002-2 Daniel Decatur Emmett: Dixie (Mary Lewis, soprano; orchestra unidentified) Marston 52047-2; CD 1 John Hill Hewitt: All Quiet Along the Potomac Tonight (John Aler, tenor; Lawrence Skrobacs, piano) New World Records 80202 George M. Cohan: Over There (Norah Bayes, singer; orchestra unidentified) Archeophone 5007; CD 2 Charles Ives: He is There! (Samuel Ramey, bass-baritone; Warren Jones, piano) Argo 125294 Hugo Weisgall: Shiloh: A Requiem (Thomas Hampson, baritone; Wolfram Rieger, piano) Orfeo d'Or C707062; CD 1 Leonard Bernstein: So Pretty (Roberta Alexander, soprano; Tan Crone, piano) KTC-1037 Ned Rorem: Night Battle (Donald Gramm, baritone; Eugene Istomin, piano) PHCD 116 George Crumb, arr.: When Johnny Comes Marching Home (Thomas Hampson, baritone; Gilbert Kalish, piano; David Cossin, Haruka Fujii, Ayano Kataoka, Jeffrey Milarsky, percussionists) Lincoln
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