Host Oliver Camacho shares favorite vocal music by American composers performed by favorite American artists such as Beverly Sills, Jessye Norman, Marilyn Horne, Reginald Mobley, Shirley Verrett, Samuel Ramey, and The Boys Choir of Harlem.
The Best of America
Playlist
Samuel G Ward arr. Charles Gerhardt: America the Beautiful
Leontyne Price, soprano
Ambrosian Singers
National Philharmonic Orchestra/Charles Gerhardt
Victor Herbert: “Italian Street Song” from Naughty Marietta
Anna Moffo, soprano
The Beecham Promenade Chorus & Orchestra/Lehman Engel
Mitch Leigh: “The Impossible Dream” from Man of La Mancha
Samuel Ramey, bass
London Studio Orchestra/Ettore Stratta
Douglas Moore: Willow Song from The Ballad of Baby Doe
Beverly Sills, soprano
New York City Opera Orchestra/Emerson Buckley
Carlisle Floyd: “Ain’t it a pretty night?” from Susannah
Phyllis Curtin, soprano
uncredited orchestra and conductor
John Rosamund Johnson and James Weldon Johnson: Lift Every Voice and Sing
Tanglewood Festival Chorus
Boston Pops Gospel Choir
Members of the Boston Gay Men’s Chorus
Boston Pops Orchestra/Keith Lockhart
Irving Berlin arr. Carl Davis: God Bless America
Marilyn Horne, mezzo-soprano
London Voices
English Chamber Orchestra/Carl Davis
Spiritual arr. Margaret Bonds: He’s Got the Whole World in His Hands
Jessye Norman, soprano
Geoffrey Parsons, piano
Spiritual arr. Moses Hogan: I Can Tell the World
The Boys Choir of Harlem/Dr. Walter Turnbull
Spiritual arr. Baptiste Trotignon: A Great Camp Meetin’
Reginald Mobley, countertenor
Baptiste Trotignon, piano
William Billings: I Am the Rose of Sharon
His Majestie’s Clerkes/Paul Hillier
Stephen Paulus: The Road Home
Keely Rhodes, soprano
Santa Fe Desert Chorale/Joshua Habermann
Margaret Bonds: “I believe in liberty” from Credo
Dashon Burton, bass-baritone
The Dessoff Choirs/Malcolm J. Merriweather
Spiritual arr. Leonard de Paur: Oh, Freedom
Shirley Verrett, mezzo-soprano
Studio chorus and orchestra/Leonard de Paur
Ricky Ian Gordon: Joy
Nicole Cabell, soprano
Ricky Ian Gordon, piano
