Selections from The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess

Including Encore Vocal Recital "Stars of the Future."

Castleton Festival

July 23, 2011, 1:00 pm

Composer: George Gershwin, DuBose and Dorothy Heyward, and Ira Gershwin
Conductor: Lorin Maazel - Castleton Festival Orchestra

Cast:

Selections from The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess:

Patrick Blackwell (bass-baritone)

Reyna Carguill (soprano)

John Fulton (baritone)  

Chauncey Packer (tenor)

Encore: "Stars of the Future"

Ekaterina Metlova (mezzo-soprano)

Michael Anthony McGee (baritone)

Liza Stepanova (piano)

Wilson Sutherland (piano)

Part of the 2011 Castleton Festival residency at the Hylton Performing Arts Center, this concert performance of Porgy and Bess features the best-loved selections from the opera.

This Broadcast includes an Encore Vocal Recital:  "Stars of the Future," Recorded July 11th, at the 2011 Castleton Festival.

Additional information

Selections from The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess include the following:
Introduction    
Summertime                    
A Woman is a Sometime Thing        
Orchestra Interlude: Fight Song        
My Man’s Gone Now            
I Got Plenty o’ Nuttin’            
Bess, You is My Woman Now
Oh, I can’t Sit Down            
It Ain’t Necessarily So
O Dey’s so Fresh an Fine
Here Come de Honeyman
I’m Talkin’ about Devil Crabs
I Wants to Stay Here
Hurricane Music    
A Red Headed Woman
There’s a Boat Leavin’
O Lawd, I’m On My Way             
 
Porgy ~ Patrick Blackwell
Bess ~ Reyna Carguill
Crown    ~ John Fulton    
Sportin’ Life ~ Chauncey Packer

Encore: "Stars of the Future"

Gustav Mahler:  Rückert-Lieder
I.    Blicke mir nicht in die Lieder!  (Do not look at my songs!)
II.   Ich atmet' einen linden Duft (I breathed a gentle fragrance)
III.  Um Mitternacht (At midnight)
IV.  Liebst du um Schönheit (If you love for beauty)
V.   Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen (I am lost to the world)
 

Traditional:  "Black Eyes"
 

Pyotr Tchaikovsky:  Rastvoril ya okno (I opened the window)

Pyotr Tchaikovsky:  Ni slova, o drug moy (Not another word, oh my friend)
 

Michail Glinka:  V krovi gorit ogon zhelanya (In the blood burns the fire of desire)

Michail Glinka:  Ya pomnui chudnoe mgnovenye (I remember a wonderful moment)
 

Sergei Rachmaninoff:  Polyubila ya na pechal svoyu (I have fallen in love to my sorrow)

Manuel de Falla:  Siete Canciones Populares Españolas
1.  El Paño Moruno
2.  Seguidilla Murciana
3.  Asturiana
4.  Jota
5.  Nana
6.  Canción
7.  Polo
 

Tom Cipullo:  Dreams.  Fantasy.  Revelry.  Imagination
 

John Musto:  Echo
 

David Sisco:  Judged by the Company One Keeps
 

Gioachino Rossini:  Dunque io son...tu on m'inganni?  From "The Barbiere di Siviglia"
 

Lorin Maazel:  Hand in Hand

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