Compact Discoveries 165: A Broadway Valentine
Series: Compact Discoveries
From: Fred Flaxman
Length: 00:57:57
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Piece Description
The music includes "A Bushel and a Peck" from Guys and Dolls by Frank Loesser, "If I Loved You" from Carousel by Rodgers and Hammerstein, "They Say It's Wonderful" from Irving Berlin's Annie Get Your Gun, "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man" from Show Boat by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein, "I'm in Love with a Wonderful Guy" from South Pacific by Rodgers and Hammerstein, "Hello, Young Lovers" from The King and I by Rodgers and Hammerstein, "Do you Love Me?" from Fiddler on the Roof by Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick, "People Will Say We're in Love" from Oklahoma by Rodgers and Hammerstein, "Bewitched" from Pal Joey by Rodgers and Hart, "I'm Not at All in Love" from The Pajama Game by Richard Adler and Jerry Ross, "Tonight" from West Side Story by Leonard Bernstein with lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, "Till There Was You" from The Music Man by Meredith Wilson, and "This is My Beloved" from Kismet by Wright and Forrest.
Performers include (but, as the lawyers say, "are not limited to...") Barbara Cook, Kim Criswell, Thomas Hampson, WIlliam Warfield, Kiri Te Kanawa, Julie Andrews, Zero Mostel, Laurence Guitard, Christine Andreas, Jane Froman, Janis Paige, José Carreras, Robert Preston, and Valerie Masterson.
Broadcast History
world premiere
Transcript
Program 165
"A Broadway Valentine"
MUSIC: Frank Loesser (arranged by William Broughton: “A Bushel and a Peck” from Guys and Dolls performed by the Orchestra of the Americas conducted by Paul Freeman [Intersound ProArte CDB 8308, excerpted from track 1] [under the following]
Hello and welcome to Compact Discoveries. I’m your guide, Fred Flaxman, and I’m calling this program “A Broadway Valentine” -- an hour of love songs originating on the Broadway musical stage.
And, for those of you with easy access right now to a paper and a pen or a computer and who would like to test your knowledge of Broadway musicals, we’re going to play a game. I’m going to give you the name of each piece I play for you, as usual, but I won’t tell you what musical it is from. You write that down and check your answers with me at the end of the hour or on the CompactDiscoveries.com website, where you’ll find...
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Timing and Cues
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Musical Works
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fred berke
Posted on February 14, 2010 at 08:42 PM | Permalink
loved It !
How do I get this on a CD