Besetzung
Jessye Norman, Sopran
Mark Markham, Klavier
Programm
A celebration of the american musical theatre:
Leonard Bernstein
Somewhere (West Side Story) (1957)
Richard Rodgers
You'll never walk alone (Carousel) (1945)
George Gershwin
But not for me (Girl Crazy) (1930)
The man I love (Lady, be good) (1927)
Harold Arlen
A sleepin' bee (House of flowers) (1954)
Richard Rodgers
Climb every mountain (The Sound of Music) (1959)
Leonard Bernstein
Lonely town (On the town) (1944–1945)
George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin
My man's gone now (Porgy and Bess) (1935)
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A celebration of the armerican musical. Mosaic – A tribute to the greats
For Nina Simone:
Walter Donaldson
My baby just cares for me (1930)
For Lena Horne:
Harold Arlen
Stormy weather. Slowfox (Cotton Club parade) (1933)
For Odetta:
Anonymus
Another man done gone
For Ella Fitzgerald:
Kurt Weill
Die Moritat von Mackie Messer »Mack the knife« (Die Dreigroschenoper) (Libretto: Bertolt Brecht) (1928)
Duke Ellington
Meditation for piano
Don't get around much anymore (1942)
I got it bad (and that ain't good) (1941)
It don't mean a thing (If I ain't got that swing) (1932)
Veranstalterinformation
Jessye Norman, eine der herausragendsten Stimmen der Opernwelt und gefeierte Interpretin auch auf dem Gebiet von Jazz und Spirituals, präsentiert zusammen mit dem Pianisten Mark Markham das Programm »American Masters« mit Liedern von Leonard Bernstein, Scott Joplin, Harold Arlen, George Gershwin und Duke Ellington.