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 Center
Chamber Music Society concert, April 2013
PROGRAM #: SOA 11-06
RELEASE: November 5, 2013
Ives the Chronicler
Charles Ives was unprecedented at suiting his musical style to the story he wanted to tell, and he
created dozens of surprising "snapshots in song" of what it was like to be alive in America during his
lifetime.
Charles Ives: Memories (Susan Graham, mezzo-soprano; Pierre-Laurent Aimard, piano) Warner Classics
2564 60297-2
Charles Ives: The Circus Band (William Sharp, baritone; Steven Blier, piano) Albany Records TROY 077
Charles Ives: 1, 2, 3 (Helen Boatwright, soprano; John Kirkpatrick, piano) CRI CD 675
Charles Ives: Remembrance (Gerald Finley, baritone; Julius Drake, piano) Hyperion CDA 67516
Charles Ives: Thoreau (Thomas Hampson, baritone; Craig Rutenberg, piano) Tanglewood recital
recording 22 July 2009
Charles Ives: Feldeinsamkeit (Thomas Hampson, baritone; Armen Guzelimian, piano) Teldec 903172168-2
Charles Ives: The Camp Meeting (Mary Ann Hart, mezzo-soprano; Dennis Helmrich, piano) Albany
Records TROY 079
Charles Ives: Serenity (Jan DeGaetani, mezzo-soprano; Gilbert Kalish, piano) Nonesuch 9-71325-2
Charles Ives: The Things Our Fathers Loved (Thomas Hampson, baritone; Michael Tilson-Thomas, piano)
RCA 9026-63703-2
Charles Ives: General William Booth Enters Into Heaven (Donald Gramm, baritone; Richard Cumming,
piano) Phoenix USA 178
Charles Ives: Mists (Susan Narucki, soprano; Alan Feinberg, piano) Decca 466 841-2
Charles Ives: Ann Street (Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, baritone; Michael Ponti, piano) DG (LP) 2530 696
Charles Ives: The Cage (Marni Nixon, soprano; John McCabe, piano) EMI 2 06631-2
Charles Ives: The Children's Hour (Thomas Hampson, baritone; Craig Rutenberg, piano) Tanglewood
recital recording 22 July 2009
Charles Ives: Two Little Flowers (William Sharp, baritone; Steven Blier, piano) DG (LP) 2530 696
Charles Ives: Tom Sails Away (Thomas Hampson, baritone; Craig Rutenberg, piano) Tanglewood recital
recording 22 July 2009
Charles Ives: On the Counter (Roberta Alexander, soprano; Tan Crone, piano) Etcetera KTC 1020
Charles Ives: In the Mornin' (Jan DeGaetani, mezzo-soprano; Gilbert Kalish, piano) Nonesuch 9-71325-2
PROGRAM #: SOA 11-07
RELEASE: November 12, 2013
Champions of American Song
Over the course of the 20th century, our classical singers were enthusiastic advocates for songs by
American composers. In this program, we hear the music they brought to far-flung audiences through
recitals, phonograph records, and radio broadcasts.
Henry Gilbert: Pirate Song (David Bispham, baritone; pianist unknown) transfer from 78 rpm
Edward MacDowell: Long Ago, Sweetheart Mine (Alma Gluck, soprano; Rosario Bourdon, piano)
Marston 52001-2; CD 2.
Sidney Homer: Dearest (Louise Homer, contralto; Victor Orchestra, conductor unknown) Pearl Gemm
CD9950.
Samuel Barber: The Monk and His Cat (Leontyne Price, soprano; Samuel Barber, piano) RCA Victor Gold
Seal 09026-61983-2.
John Alden Carpenter: The Home Road (Ernestine Schmann-Heink, contralto; Katherine Hoffman, piano)
Delos DE5503; CD 2.
Henry Burleigh, arr.: Go Down, Moses (Roland Hayes, tenor; Lawrence Brown, piano) NW 247 (LP)
Charles Gilbert Spross: Will o' the Wisp (Marian Anderson, contralto; Franz Rupp, piano) VAIA 1168.
Oley Speaks: On the Road to Mandalay (Lawrence Tibbett, baritone; Stewart Wille, piano) DELOS
DE5500; CD 1
Stephen Foster: Gentle Annie (Robert Merrill, baritone; Leila Edwards, piano) MET 210CD; CD 2
Charles Wakefield Cadman: At Dawning (Paul Robeson, bass-baritone; unidentified orchestra, Walter
Goehr, conductor) EMI 2 15598 2; CD 6
Sandor Harmati: The Bluebird of Happiness (Jan Peerce, tenor; RCA Victor Orchestra, Sylvan Levin,
conductor) RCA Victor Gold Seal 09026-68531-2
Oscar Rasbach: Trees (Nelson Eddy, baritone; Columbia Concert Orchestra, Leon Arnaud conductor)
JASCD 474; CD 2
Katherine Kennicott Davis: Nancy Hanks (Eleanor Steber, soprano; Edwin Biltcliffe, piano) VAIA 1005-2;
CD 2
Aaron Copland, arr.: Zion's Walls (William Warfield, baritone; Aaron Copland, piano) Sony Classical
SM2K 89326/89327; CD 2
George Crumb: Let It Be Forgotten (Jan DeGaetani, mezzo-soprano; Gilbert Kalish, piano) Bridge 9253
PROGRAM #: SOA 11-08
RELEASE: November 19, 2013
Arthur Farwell, American Pioneer
At the beginning of the 20th century, deeply influenced by Dvorak's challenge to Americans to find
their own musical voices, Arthur Farwell used music of Native Americans and words of American
poets as inspiration for his own unique voice. He also pioneered the publishing and preservation of
American composers and poets through his famed Wa-Wan Press.
Interviewee: Jonathan Farwell, son of the composer
Interviewee: Neely Bruce, professor of music, Wesleyan University
Arthur Farwell: Ichibuzzhi (Dario Müller, piano) Marco Polo 8.223738.
Arthur Farwell: Song of the Deathless Voice (Thomas Hampson, baritone; Wolfram Rieger, piano) Orfeo
656052
Arthur Farwell: Inketunga's Thunder Song (William Parker, baritone; William Huckaby, piano) New
World Records 80463
Charles Wakefield Cadman: From the Land of the Sky-Blue Water (Alma Gluck, soprano; Victor
Orchestra, Walter B. Rodgers, conductor) Opera Classics, 1911-1918
Charles Wakefield Cadman: The Moon Drops Low (Jan De Gaetani, mezzo soprano; Gilbert Kalish, piano)
nonesuch B000005IYX
Gena Branscombe: Serenade (Kathleen Shimeta, mezzo-soprano; Martin Hennessey, piano) Albany
Records TROY 599
Arthur Farwell: Beggar's Dreams from The Gods of the Mountain (Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Karl
Kreuger conductor) American Orchestral Compositions, 1890-1916
Arthur Farwell: Navajo War Dance (The New World Singers, John Miner, conductor) New World Records
80542
Arthur Farwell: Dark Her Lodge Door (David Barron, baritone; Neely Bruce, piano) Live on WQXR Radio,
New York, April 16, 1975
Arthur Farwell: The Ravens Are Singing (David Barron, baritone; Neely Bruce, piano) Live on WQXR
Radio, New York, April 16, 1975
Roy Harris: When Johnny Comes Marching Home (Roberts Wesleyan College Chorale, Robert Shewan,
conductor) Albany Music TROY 164
Arthur Farwell: I'm Nobody (Paul Sperry, tenor; Irma Vallecillo, piano) Albany Records TROY 043
Arthur Farwell: The Level Bee (Paul Sperry, tenor; Irma Vallecillo, piano) Albany Records TROY 043
Arthur Farwell: The Old Man's Love Story (Thomas Hampson, baritone; Wolfram Rieger, piano) Orfeo
656052
PROGRAM #: SOA 11-09
RELEASE: November 26, 2013
"There Is No Gender in Music"
So said composer Elinor Remick Warren. In this program we look at the lives and songs of generations
of American women composers.
Amy Marcy Beach: Ah, Love But A Day (Deborah Voigt, soprano; Brian Zeger, piano) EMI Classics
724355796424.
Amy Marcy Beach: Twilight (Thomas Hampson, baritone; Craig Rutenberg, piano) recital in Winona,
Minnesota, 2009
Florence Price: My Soul's Been Anchored in the Lord (Marian Anderson, contralto; Franz Rupp, piano)
RCA Victor Red Seal 63306.
Florence Price: Songs to the Dark Virgin (Darryl Taylor, tenor; Maria Corley, piano) Naxos 8.559136 2.
Margaret Bonds: Poème d'Automne (Louise Toppin, soprano; John O'Brien, piano) Albany Records TROY
385.
Marion Bauer: A Parable: A Blade of Grass (Janet Morrow King, mezzo-soprano; David King, piano)
private recording.
Ruth Crawford Seeger: Rat Riddles (Nan Hughes, mezzo-soprano; Continuum Ensemble, Joel Sachs,
director) Naxos 8.559197.
Carrie Jacobs-Bond: Her Greatest Charm (Jan DeGaetani, mezzo-soprano; Gilbert Kalish, piano) Elektra
Nonesuch 79178.
Carrie Jacobs-Bond: Nothin' but Love (Jan DeGaetani, mezzo-soprano; Gilbert Kalish, piano) Elektra
Nonesuch 79178.
Gladys Rich: American Lullaby (Jay Piersen, baritone; John O'Brien, piano) Albany Records TROY 385.
Marion Dix Sullivan: The Blue Juniata (Ranger Doug, voice; Riders in the Sky Ensemble) Pa's Fiddle
Recordings PFR 0163-2.
Margaret Ruthven Lang: Ojalá (Donald George, tenor; Lucy Mauro, piano) Delos DE3407.
Libby Larsen: Bucking Bronco (Louise Toppin, soprano; John O'Brien, piano) Orfeo 656052.
Elinor Remick Warren: Sweetgrass Range (Nelson Eddy, baritone; Kraft Music Hall Orch) Mac/Eddy
Records JN 187.
Miriam Gideon: She Weeps Over Rahoon (William Sharp, baritone; Walter Hilse, piano) New World
Records 80393.
Lori Laitman: The Kiss (William Sharp, baritone; Lori Laitman, piano) Albany Records TROY 393.
Elinor Remick Warren: God Be In My Heart (Thomas Hampson, baritone; Wolfram Rieger, piano) THM
5432.
PROGRAM #: SOA 11-10
RELEASE: December 3, 2013
Emily Dickinson: Letter to the World
The reclusive poet explored all of life's emotions, and there are hundreds of compelling settings of her
poems, by composers from Ernst Bacon to André Previn to Ned Rorem.
Aaron Copland: Dear March, Come in (Barbara Bonney, soprano; André Previn, piano) Decca 455511;
track 7
Lee Hoiby: A Letter (Jennifer Larmore, mezzo-soprano; Antoine Palloc, piano) Teldec 0630-16069, track
18
Otto Luening: Experiment to Me (Carolyn Heafner, soprano; Shirley Ann Seguin, piano) MSR 1085; track
9
André Previn: Will there really be a 'Morning'? (Renée Fleming, soprano; Renée Fleming, piano) DG
471028; track 9
Aaron Copland: When They Come Back (John Kennedy Hanks, tenor; Ruth Friedberg, piano) The Art Song
in America, Duke University Press; CD 3, track 23
Ernst Bacom: The Banks of the Yellow Sea (Thomas Hampson, baritone; Malcolm Martineau, piano)
Orfeo d'Or C707062; CD 2, track 11
William Bolcom: The Bustle in a House (Marilyn Horne, mezzo-soprano; Martin Katz, piano) RCA Victor
Red Seal 68771; track 15
Ned Rorem: Love's Stricken (Beverly Wolff, mezzo-soprano; Ned Rorem, piano) Phoenix USA 108; track 4
Ned Rorem: Love's Stricken (second version) (Beverly Wolff, mezzo-soprano; Ned Rorem, piano) Phoenix
USA 108; track 14
Ernst Bacon: Wild Nights (Thomas Hampson, baritone; Malcolm Martineau, piano) Orfeo d'Or C707062;
CD 2, track 12
John Duke: Heart, We Will Forget Him (Jennifer Larmore, mezzo-soprano; Antoine Palloc, piano) Teldec
0630-16069, track 25
Aaron Copland: Heart, We Will Forget Him (second version) (Joyce DiDonato, mezzo-soprano; David
Zobel, piano) Eloquentia 504; track 10
Etta Parker: Have You Got a Brook in Your Little Heart (Virginia Dupuy, mezzo-soprano; Tara Emerson,
piano) Gasparo 360; track 17
Arthur Farwell: Papa Above! (Paul Sperry, tenor; Irma Vallecillo, piano) Albany Records TROY 043; track
31
Leo Smit: Of Tolling Bell (Georgine Resick, soprano; Warren Jones, piano) Bridge 9227; track 6
Aaron Copland: Going to Heaven (Phyllis Curtin, soprano; Aaron Copland, piano) VAI Audio 1194; track
11
Ernst Bacon: It's Coming-The Postponeless Creature (Thomas Hampson, baritone; Malcolm Martineau,
piano) Orfeo d'Or C707062; CD 2, track 14
George Perle: Under the Light, Yet Under (Bethany Beardslee, soprano; Morey Ritt, piano) A Tribute to
Bethany Beardslee, CRI (CD# n.a.); track 13
William Roy: This Little Rose (Carolyn Heafner, soprano; Shirley Ann Seguin, piano) MSR 1085; track 6
Lori Laitman: The Butterfly Upon (Jennifer Check, soprano; Warren Jones, piano) Albany Records TROY
1118; track 22
Robert Beaser: I Dwell in Possibility (Hila Plitmann, soprano; David Berman, piano) Bridge 9271; track 3
Ernst Bacon: Let Down the Bars (Thomas Hampson, baritone; Malcolm Martineau, piano) Orfeo d'Or
C707062; CD 2, track 13
PROGRAM #: SOA 11-11
RELEASE: December 10, 2013
Songs We've Always Sung
Aaron Copland's "Old American Songs" have become recital standards, but traditional texts and tunes
have attracted many other classical composers, including John Jacob Niles, George Crumb, and Jake
Heggie.
Archival: The Little Horses (Mrs. Kate Jones, recorded by Alan Lomax, 1930's) Library of Congress
Aaron Copland, arr.: The Little Horses (William Warfield, baritone; Aaron Copland, piano) Sony 746460899-2
Aaron Copland, arr.: I Bought Me a Cat (Marilyn Horne, mezzo-soprano; English Chamber Orchestra/Carl
Davis) London 417 242-2
Jake Heggie, arr.: The Leather-Winged Bat (Jennifer Larmore, mezzo-soprano; Antoine Palloc, piano)
Teldec 0630-16069, track 13
Roger Ames, arr.: Shenandoah (Thomas Hampson, baritone; Armen Guzelimian, piano) EMI/Angel 0946
3 4645 2 8
Cecil Sharp, arr.: Black is the Color of My True Love's Hair (first version) (John Langstaff, baritone; Sir
Gerald Moore, piano) Revels/EMI 72435-95073-2-3
John Jacob Niles, arr.: Black is the Color of My True Love's Hair (second version) (John Jacob Niles,
singer) Essential Media Group B000TPTQ2E
John Jacob Niles, arr.: Black is the Color of My True Love's Hair (third version) (Thomas Hampson,
baritone; Wolfram Rieger, piano) Orfeo d'Or C707062.
George Crumb, arr.: Black, Black, Black is the Color (Thomas Hampson, baritone; Gilbert Kalish, piano;
David Cossin, Haruka Fujii, Ayano Kataoka, Jeffrey Milarsky, percussionists) Lincoln Center Chamber
Music Society concert, April 2013
John Powell, arr.: The Old Woman's Courtship (John Langstaff, baritone; John Powell, piano) Revels
38871 23022
Clifford Shaw, arr.: The Nightingale (Thomas Hampson, baritone; Armen Guzelimian, piano) EMI/Angel
0946 3 4645 2 8
Traditional: Barbara Allen (Pete Seeger, unaccompanied)from American Folk Tales Goldenlane Records
Jake Heggie, arr.: Bar'bry Allen (Jennifer Larmore, mezzo-soprano; Antoine Palloc, piano) Teldec 063016069, track 14
Howard Brockway, arr.: John Riley (John Langstaff, baritone; Nancy Woodbridge, piano) Revels 38871
22022
Aaron Copland, arr.: The Golden Willow Tree (Thomas Hampson, baritone; Wolfram Rieger, piano) from
recital at Salzburg Festival
Steven Mark Kohn, arr.: California (Andrew Garland, baritone; Donna Loewy, piano) Azica
B001AGNMBW
Archival: On the Other Shore (unidentified woman + Alan Lomax, recorded by Alan Lomax) Library of
Congress
Steven Mark Kohn, arr.: On the Other Shore (Andrew Garland, baritone; Donna Loewy, piano) Azica
B001AGNMBW
PROGRAM #: SOA 11-12
RELEASE: December 17, 2013
Langston Hughes and the Harlem Renaissance
Langston Hughes, one of America's great poets, gave jubilant voice to the lives of African Americans.
His poetry has inspired settings by dozens of composers; we hear some of that music and learn about
the world that inspired him.
Interviewee: Donna Akiba Harper Sullivan, professor of English, Spelman College
Margaret Bonds: The Negro Speaks of Rivers (Thomas Hampson, baritone; Vlad Iftinca, piano) recital,
July 2013
Ricky Ian Gordon: My People (Harolyn Blackwell, soprano; Warren Jones, piano) RCA 09026-61944-2
Langston Hughes: I, Too (Langston Hughes reads the poem) Smithsonian Folkways SFW47001
Margaret Bonds: I, Too (Kevin Maynor, bass; Eric Olsen, piano) The Black Art Song Fleur de Son
Erik Santos: Bound No'th Blues (Darryl Taylor, tenor; Patricia Terry-Ross, harp; Erik Santos, piano and
snaps) Naxos 8.559136
Langston Hughes: Minstrel Man (Paul Robeson reads the poem) EMI Classics 509992155 8627; CD 5
Margaret Bonds: Minstrel Man (Kevin Maynor, bass; Eric Olsen, piano) The Black Art Song Fleur de Son
Jean Berger: Lonely People (Thomas Hampson, baritone; Malcolm Martineau, piano) Orfeo d'Or
C707062; CD 2
William Grant Still: A Black Pierrot (Darryl Taylor, tenor; Maria Corley, piano) Naxos 8.559136
Howard Swanson: Joy (Darryl Taylor, tenor; Maria Corley, piano) Naxos 8.559136.
Henry T. Burleigh: Lovely Dark and Lonely One (Regina McConnell, soprano; Michael Cordovana, piano)
CRC 2252
John Stone: Daybreak in Alabama (Amy Bartram, soprano; John Stone, piano) Daybreak in Alabama: A
Langston Hughes Song Cycle (no CD info)
John Musto: Litany (Paul Sperry, tenor; Irma Vallecillo, piano) Albany Records TROY 081
Hermann Reutter: Drum (Thomas Hampson, baritone; Malcolm Martineau, piano) Orfeo d'Or C707062;
CD 2
Elie Siegmeister: Peace (Esther Hinds, soprano; Alan Mandel, piano) CRI 814
Ricky Ian Gordon: Dream Variations (Audra McDonald, soprano; ensemble conducted by Eric Stern)
Nonesuch 79626
PROGRAM #: SOA 11-13
RELEASE: December 24, 2013
Places That Sing To Us
There are places in the American landscape that are part of our collective consciousness, thanks to
music. In this program, we listen to songs that have helped shape the way we see our country.
Charles Ives: My Native Land (William Sharp, baritone; Steven Blier, piano) Albany Records TROY 077.
Henry Russell: A Life in the West (Clifford Jackson, baritone; Peter Basquin, piano) New World Records
80251.
Daniel Kelley: Home on the Range, arranged by David Wendel Guion (John Charles Thomas, baritone;
unidentified orchestra, Nathaniel Shilkret, conductor) Nimbus NI 7838.
Roger Ames, arr.: Erie Canal (Thomas Hampson, baritone; Armen Guzelimian, piano) EMI Classics 41645
2 8.
Stephen Foster: My Old Kentucky Home (Marian Anderson, contralto; Victor Symphony Orchestra, C.
O'Connell) Magnum Music MCCD.
Paul Bowles: Sugar in the Cane (Thomas Hampson, baritone; Craig Rutenberg, piano) THM 5432.
Samuel Barber: Knoxville: Summer of 1915 (Leontyne Price, soprano; Philharmonia Orchestra, Thomas
Schippers, conductor) RCA Victor 61983.
Steven Mark Kohn, arr.: Hell in Texas (Andrew Garland, baritone; Donna Loewy, piano) Azica
B001AGNMBW.
Aaron Copland, arr.: The Boatmen's Dance (Thomas Hampson, baritone; St. Paul Chamber Orchestra,
Hugh Wolff, conductor) Teldec 77310-2.
Kurt Weill: River Chanty (Steven Kimbrough, baritone; Dalton Baldwin, piano) Arabesque Z6579.
Charles Ives: The Housatonic at Stockbridge (Jan DeGaetani, mezzo-soprano; Gilbert Kalish, piano)
Nonesuch 71325.
Ned Rorem: The Lordly Hudson (Susan Graham, mezzo-soprano; Malcolm Martineau, piano) Erato
80222.
Stephen White, arr.: Shenandoah (Thomas Hampson, baritone; Wolfram Rieger, piano) TH 5432.