American Musical Sampler

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We present a program of vintage American musicals, including Oklahoma!,
Guys & Dolls, and Annie Get Your Gun.

Playlist:
1:00 pm
  • Die Meistersinger: Prelude (excerpt)
  • Composer: Richard Wagner
  • Ensemble: Chicago Symphony Orchestra
  • Conductor: Fritz Reiner
  • CD/Album: Reiner Conducts Wagner
  • Record co./Cat #: RCA 4738
  • Release Year: 1983
1:02 pm
  • Oklahoma!
  • Composer: Richard Rodgers
  • Ensemble: Original Broadway Cast
  • Soloists: Alfred Drake ; Lee Dixon ; Celeste Holm ; Joan Roberts ; Joseph Buloff ; Howard da Silva
  • Conductor: Jay Blackton
  • CD/Album: Oklahoma! Original Cast Album
  • Record co./Cat #: Decca 012157981
  • Release Year: 1993
1:50 pm
  • Guys & Dolls
  • Composer: Frank Loesser
  • Ensemble: Original Broadway Cast
  • Soloists: Robert Alda ; Vivian Blaine ; Sam Levene ; Isabel Bigley ; Stubby Kaye ; Pat Rooney, Sr.
  • Conductor: Irving Actman
  • CD/Album: Guys and Dolls Original Cast Album
  • Record co./Cat #: Decca 012159112
  • Release Year: 2000
2:34 pm
  • The Pajama Game
  • Composer: Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
  • Ensemble: Original Broadway Cast
  • Soloists: John Raitt ; Janis Paige ; Eddie Foy, Jr. ; Stanley Prager ; Carol Haney
  • Conductor: Hal Hastings
  • CD/Album: The Pajama Game Original Broadway Cast Recording
  • Record co./Cat #: Sony 89253
  • Release Year: 1954
3:27 pm
  • Annie Get Your Gun
  • Composer: Irving Berlin
  • Ensemble: Music Theatre of Lincoln Center
  • Soloists: Ethel Merman ; Bruce Yarnell ; Jerry Orbach ; Benay Venuta ; Ronn Carroll ; Rufus Smith
  • Conductor: Franz Allers
  • CD/Album: Annie Get Your Gun
  • Record co./Cat #: RCA 1124
  • Release Year: 1988
4:19 pm
  • Brigadoon
  • Composer: Frederick Loewe
  • Ensemble: Original Broadway Cast
  • Soloists: Lee Sullivan ; David Brooks ; Delbert Anderson ; Marion Bell ; Pamela Britton
  • Conductor: Franz Allers
  • CD/Album: Brigadoon
  • Record co./Cat #: RCA 1001
  • Release Year: 1988
4:52 pm
  • Sweetly she sleeps, my Alice fair
  • Composer: Stephen Foster
  • Soloists: Thomas Hampson, baritone ; David Alpher, piano
  • CD/Album: American Dreamer: Songs of Stephen Foster
  • Record co./Cat #: Angel 54621
  • Release Year: 1992
4:57 pm
  • Die Meistersinger: Prelude (excerpt)
  • Composer: Richard Wagner
  • Ensemble: Chicago Symphony Orchestra
  • Conductor: Fritz Reiner
  • CD/Album: Reiner Conducts Wagner
  • Record co./Cat #: RCA 4738
  • Release Year: 1983

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