kalw: : Performing Arts Special 28 July at 8 PM (2009-07-25)

PERFORMING ARTS SPECIAL

Performing Arts Special 28 July at 8 PM

Samuel Ramey

An Hour with Samuel Ramey by Host Alan Farley Alan Farley talks with bass-baritone Samuel Ramey, who had just celebrated the thirtieth anniversary of his debut at the San Francisco Opera.

Recordings included:

1."Vous qui faites l'endormie" (Serenade) from Charles Gounod's "Faust"
2."Ave Signor" from Arrigo Boito's "Mefistophele"
3."La columnia e un venticello" from Gioachino Rossini's "Il barbiere di Siviglia"
4."La ci darem la mano" from Wolfgang Mozart's "Don Giovanni"
5."Fate" from Forrest & Wright's "Kismet"
6."Rhymes Have I" from Forrest & Wright's "Kismet"
7."I am the Reverend Olin Blitch" from Carlyle Floyd's "Susannah"
8."Devant la maison" from Hector Berlioz' "La damnation de Faust"
9."June Is bustin' out all over" from Rodgers & Hammerstein's "Carousel"
10."Some enchanted evening" from Rodgers & Hammerstein's "South Pacific"

[First broadcast in January 2009]