I hope you’ll join me this Friday,  July 30 at 11:00 am when we will be listening to the original Broadway cast recording of Cole Porter’s “Anything Goes” (1934). Members of the cast include Ethel Merman, William Gaxton, and Victor Moore. Many songs that we know from that show were omitted, so we will hear them when we listen to a recording of a recent revival.  FUN!

Sunday Morning Opera with Sandy, on July 25th, will feature Cesare Siepi, who passed away on July 5, 2010. He will be singing the title role of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s “Don Giovanni”. This is a recording from the 1956 Salzburg Festival, and also features Elisabeth Grümmer, Léopold Simoneau, Fernando Corena, Lisa della Casa, Walter Berry, Gottlob Frick, and Rita Streich. The conductor is Dimitri Mitropoulos.
Note: Due to the length of the opera, we will begin …

Tuesday, July 20th, 8:30-11am discover a wide variety of music performed by Christoph Eschenbach! Because Eschenbach is such a wonderful musician in so many regards, the Famous Accompanists show will deviate from its normal scope of chamber music and art song.  He is the only musician that I know of who has mastered orchestral conducting, opera conducting, solo piano, and collaborative piano.  He has even made some fantastic piano duet recordings!
Among other things, we will …

On Friday, July 16th, from 11AM to 1PM, we will be listening to 2 shows:First, “Fiorello” (1959), with music by Jerry Bock. Members of this original cast recording cast include Tom Bosley, Howard Da Silva, and Patricia Wilson. The second show is “I had a Ball” with music and lyrics by Jack Lawrence and Stan Freeman. This 1964 original cast recording features Buddy Hackett and Richard Kiley.

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1 ARIEL PINK’S HAUNTED GRAFFITI Before Today 4AD
2 NINA NASTASIA Outlaster FatCat
3 SCREAMING FEMALES Singles Don Giovanni
4 VARIOUS ARTISTS Cloud Cuckooland: 20 Garish Quills Plucked From The Plumage Of Krautrock’s Lesser-Spotted Flock B-Music
5 TRANS AM Thing
6 VARIOUS ARTISTS Palenque Palenque: Champeta Criolla And Afro Roots In Colombia Soundway
7 SNACK TRUCK Spacial Findings 1-7
8 WOODS At Echo Lake Woodsist
9 VARIOUS ARTISTS The BYG Deal finders keepers-B-Music
10 ROKY ERICKSON WITH OKKERVIL RIVER True Love Cast Out All Evil Anti
11 CRYSTAL CASTLES Crystal Castles II Universal
12 TEENAGE FANCLUB Shadows Merge
13 PARTY PHOTOGRAPHERS Let the Red Lights …