Guy brings us a tribute to Dawn Upshaw, soprano, whose silvery voice crosses with ease from avant-garde to Broadway. Tonight’s show focuses on the American Songbook, with cheerful, nostalgic, sad, (and sometimes melodramatic) tunes from Gershwin, Weill, Copland, Sondheim, and Maria Schneider.

AMERICAN HIGHWAYS #37: DAWN UPSHAW, SOPRANO

Theme Music :

Steve Reich. The Desert Music (1984)

First Movement (Fast).

Chorus of the Brooklyn Philharmonic, Members of the Brooklyn Philharmonic, Michael Tilson Thomas & William Carlos Williams.

Nonesuch Records 79101.

Marc Blitzstein

1. I Wish It So (3:21)

2. In The Clear (2:37)

Stephen Sondheim

3. Never Get Lost, Take Me To The World (3:55)

4. The Girls of Summer (3:02)

5. What More Do I Need? (3:04)

Stephen Sondheim/ Leonard Bernstein

6. I Feel Pretty (2:20)

Ogden Nash/Kurt Weill

7. That’s Him (3:53)

Kurt Weill

8. My Ship (2:44)

9. The Saga Of Jenny (3:48)

Dawn Upshaw, soprano

Electra Nonesuch 79345-2

Leonard Bernstein

10. Trouble In Tahiti – What A Movie! (5:07) (totally not politically correct, but it’s a parody, in case you didn’t notice – what a hilarious text!)

Kurt Weill

12. Street Scene – Lonely House (3:45)

John Adams

13. Nixon In China – This Is Prophetic (7:30)

Aaron Copland

14. The Tender Land – Once I Thought (Laurie’s Song) (4:05)

Dawn Upshaw; David Zinman: Orchestra Of St. Luke’s

Nonesuch 79458-2

Maria Schneider

15. Walking by Flashlight (3:52)

Dawn Upshaw, soprano

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