As the Mary and James G. Wallach Artist-in-Residence, baritone Thomas Hampson joined the Philharmonic in 2009 for an American New Year’s Eve celebration. In addition to songs by Aaron Copland and Cole Porter, then Music Director Alan Gilbert conducts George Gershwin’s An American in Paris and Copland’s Appalachian Spring. Alec Baldwin is your host on The New York Philharmonic This Week.
An All-American New Year’s Eve: Thomas Hampson Sings Copland and Porter
Thomas Hampson (Photo: Marco Borggreve)
Playlist
Aaron Copland: Appalachian Spring Suite
Aaron Copland: Old American Songs
Cole Porter: “Night and Day”
Cole Porter: “Who Said the Gay Paree?”
Cole Porter: “Where Is the Life that Late I Led?”
Cole Porter: “In the Still of the Night”
Cole Porter: “Begin the Beguine”
George Gershwin: An American in Paris