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Composer of the Week: Gershwin

on BBC Radio 3

With Donald Macleod.
5: Hollywood and an Opera
Summertime (Porgy and Bess)
Renee Fleming (soprano), New York Voices, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, conductor James Levine
Blue Monday Alice Zizzo (piano) Porgy and Bess (Act 2) (excerpt)
Cynthia Haymon and Cynthia Clarey
(sopranos), Marietta Simpson (contralto), Damon Evans (tenor), Gregg Baker
(baritone), Glyndebourne Chorus, LPO, conductor Simon Rattle
Promenade: Walking the Dog (Shall We Dance?) William Bolcom (piano)
Let's Call the Whole Thing Off (Shall We Dance?) Fred Astaire (singer), Charlie Shavers (trumpet), Oscar Peterson
(piano), Barney Kessel (guitar), Ray Brown (bass), Alvin Stoller (drums)
Suite: A Damsel in Distress (arrJohn McGlinn) New Princess Theater
Orchestra, conductor John McGlinn
But Not for Me (Girl Crazy) Ella Fitzgerald (singer), conductor Nelson Riddle

Contributors

Unknown:
Donald MacLeod.
Soprano:
Renee Fleming
Conductor:
James Levine
Piano:
Alice Zizzo
Unknown:
Cynthia Haymon
Sopranos:
Cynthia Clarey
Sopranos:
Marietta Simpson
Tenor:
Damon Evans
Tenor:
Gregg Baker
Conductor:
Simon Rattle
Piano:
William Bolcom
Singer:
Fred Astaire
Piano:
Oscar Peterson
Piano:
Barney Kessel
Guitar:
Ray Brown
Bass:
Alvin Stoller
Conductor:
John McGlinn
Singer:
Ella Fitzgerald
Conductor:
Nelson Riddle

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