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DRUMROLL PLEASE Lake Tahoe 2023 Lucas Meachem
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: DRUMROLL PLEASE
- Composer: various
- Libretto: various
- Venue & Opera Company: Classical Tahoe Ricardi Pavilion, Lake Tahoe, California
- Recorded: August 5, 2023
- Type: Concert Live
- Singers: Lucas Meachem
- Conductor: Ruth Reinhardt
- Orchestra: Classical Tahoe Orchestra
- Stage Director:
- Costume Designer:
Information about the Recording
- Published by: Classical Tahoe
- Date Published: 2023
- Format: Streaming
- Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
- Subtitles: nosubs
- This Recording is NOT AVAILABLE from a proper commercial or public source
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
Franz Joseph Haydn: Symphony No. 103 in E-flat major, “Drumroll” (1795)
William Grant Still: Ennanga for harp, piano, and strings (1958)
Aaron Copland: Selections from Old American Songs (1950-1952)
Old American Songs are two sets of songs arranged by Aaron Copland in 1950 and 1952 respectively, after research in the Sheet Music Collection of the Harris Collection of American Poetry and Plays, in the John Hay Library at Brown University. Originally scored for voice and piano, they were reworked for baritone (or mezzo-soprano) and orchestra.
Set 1 was first performed by Peter Pears (tenor) and Benjamin Britten (piano) on June 17, 1950 at Aldeburgh. The version of Set 1 for baritone and orchestra was premiered on January 7, 1955, by William Warfield and the Los Angeles Philharmonic, conducted by Alfred Wallenstein.
Set 2 was first performed by William Warfield and Aaron Copland (piano) on 25 May 1958 in Ipswich, Massachusetts, and later, in its orchestral form, by Grace Bumbry (mezzo-soprano) and the Ojai Festival Orchestra, conducted by the composer, in Ojai, California.[citation needed] Set 2 was recorded by Warfield and Copland on August 18, 1953, for Columbia Records but apparently not publicly performed until the above-mentioned date in Ipswich.
Set 1
The Boatman’s Dance (minstrel song from 1843)
The Dodger (campaign song)
Long Time Ago (ballad)
Simple Gifts (Shaker song)
I Bought Me a Cat (children’s song, Roud Folk Song Index No. 544)
Set 2
The Little Horses (lullaby)
Zion’s Walls (revivalist song)
The Golden Willow Tree (Anglo-American ballad)
At the River (hymn tune)
Ching-A-Ring Chaw (minstrel song)