Larry will present a special one hour broadcast beginning at 4 PM to celebrate Gay Pride Weekend in Chicago. Expect to be entertained as well as informed hearing recordings by gay and lesbian composers and singers who have made significant contributions to American and European culture over a century and more ranging from Leonard Bernstein to Cole Porter and Jake Heggie to Peter Pears, David Daniels and Patricia Racette among many others.
A Program For Gay Pride Weekend
Playlist
Offenbach: La Boulangere a des Ecus
1. Les Charbonniers et Les Fariniers
2. Un Homme Diun Vrai Merite
Reynaldo Hahn, self-accompanied
Recorded in Paris in 1929
Romophone 82015-2 A
Ravel: Five Popular Greek Melodies: “Quel Galante”
David Daniels with the Orchestral Ensemble of Paris
Recorded in Paris in 2003
VIRGIN CLASSICS 545646 2 8
Thomas: Le Caid, “Drum Major’s Song”
Pol Plancon with Orchestra
Recorded in New York in 1907
ROMOPHONE 82001-2 A
Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier, “Monologue of the Marschallin”
Margarete Siems with Orchestra
Recorded in Berlin in 1911
THE RECORD COLLECTOR TRC 10
Wagner: Die Walkure, “Wintersturme”
Max Lorenz with the Berlin State Opera Orchestra
Conducted by Ernst Viebig
Recorded in Berlin in 1928
EMI 2 368439 2
Schubert: Die Winterreise: “Fruhlingstraum”
Brigitte Fassbender with Aribert Reiman, piano
Recorded in London in 1988
EMI 2 36086 2
Thompson-Stein: Four Saints in Three Acts, “Vision of the Holy Ghost: Pigeons on the Grass, Alas!”
Chorus conducted by Virgil Thompson
RCA 68163-2
Traditional: “A Brisk Young Widow”
Recorded in London in 1963
Peter Pears with Benjamin Britten,piano
DECCA 478 2345
Coward: Bittersweet, “Green Carnations”
Noel Coward with Leo Reisman and his Orchestra
Recorded in New York in 1933
EMI 7 54919 2
Barber-Menotti: Vanessa, “Must the Winter Come So Soon?”
Susan Graham with the BBC Symphony Orchestra
Conducted by Leonard Slatkin
Recorded in London in 2003
CHANDOS CHSA 5032(2)
Heggie: Songs to the Moon: “Euclid”
Frederica von Stade with Jake Heggie, piano
RCA VICTOR 09026-63484-2
Bernstein-Sondheim: “Maria”
Larry Kert with West Side Story Orchestra
Recorded in New York in 1957
Sondheim: A Little Night Music “Remember?”
Teri Ralston, Benjamin Rayson, Gene Varron, Beth Fowler and Barbara Lang with Orchestra Recorded in New York in 1973 SONY SK 65284
Rodgers-Hart: Babes in Arms, “Where or When”
Patricia Racette with Craig Terry, piano
Recorded in 2013 Gpr Records 10013
Porter: Anything Goes “You’re the Top”
Cole Porter, self-accompanied
Recorded in New York in 1934
LP: RCA LPV-560
HermanL Mame “Bosom Buddies”
Angela Lansbury and Beatrice Arthur with Orchestra
Recorded in New York in 1966
SONY SK 60959
WFMT post:
https://www.wfmt.com/2017/06/22/hear-century-lgbtq-artists-arias-songs/
