FULL Marilyn Horne’s Great American Songbook New York 1983

Information on the Performance

• Work Title: Marilyn Horne's Great American Songbook  
• Composer: various  
• Libretto: various  
• Venue & Opera Company: Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center, New York City  
• Recorded: December 28, 1983
• Type: Concert Live
• Singers: Marilyn Horne
• Conductor: Leonard Slatkin  
• Orchestra: American Symphony Orchestra  
• Chorus: New York Choral Artists  
• Stage Director:   
• Costume Designer:   

Information about the Recording

• Published by: Live from Lincoln Center  
• Date Published: 1983  
• Format: Broadcast
• Quality Video: 3 Audio:3
• Subtitles: nosubs  
• Video Recording from: ok     FULL VIDEO
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE

George M. Cohen, “You’re a Grand Old Flag”
Folk Songs:
John Jacob Niles, “Go ‘Way From My Window”
Trad., (setting by John Edmunds) “Billy Boy”
Trad., “Shenandoah”
Trad., “He’s Gone Away”
Stephen Foster songs: “Beautiful Dreamer”; “If You’ve Only Got A Moustache” (Lyrics by George Cooper); “Jeannie with the Light Brown Hair”; “Camptown Races”; “Gentle Annie”
Aaron Copland songs: (from “Old American Songs”) “Simple Gifts”; “At the River”; “I Bought Me a Cat”; “Long Time Ago”; “Ching-A-Ring-Chaw”

INTERMISSION

Hymns/Spirituals:
Austin Miles, “In the Garden”
Trad., “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child”
May H. Brahe (Lyrics by Helen Taylor), “Bless This House”
Trad., “I Just Come From the Fountain”
Albert Hay Malotte, “The Lord’s Prayer”
Patriotic Songs:
Louis Lambert, “When Johnny Comes Marching Home”
William Steffe (Lyrics by Julie Ward Howe), “Battle Hymn of the Republic”
Al Piantadosi (Lyrics by Alfred Bryan), “I Didn’t Raise My Boy to be a Soldier”
Irving Berlin, “God Bless America”

Pretaped intermission interview with Horne; live intermission interview with Slatkin; pretaped Horne vignettes to introduce each song group.

Program Length: 1:58:46