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Met Stars Sing Operetta -
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| A range of operetta music, sung by several dozen distinguished artists who figure significantly in the Metropolitan Opera's history:Gedda, Caballe,De los Angeles, Heppner, Tibbet and many others
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American Tapestry -
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Actionable Offenses: Indecent Phonograph Recordings from the 1890s -
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| New York City, 1896. A man walks into a bar. He sits down, orders a beer, and laughs long and hard at the bartender's newest story. It's a good tale, though too bawdy to repeat at home. The next day he goes into the same bar, gets his beer, and drops his change into a phonograph. He's listening through rubber tubes to a man telling a story similar to the bartender's. Without warning Anthony Comstock's defenders of decency charge into the bar, push him aside, destroy the record, and escort the bar's proprietor to jail for promoting indecency. The records on this CD are the few that Comstock's men missed. Scarcity and suppression have kept them silent for a century. Put aside the modern myth of a more genteel era: these late-Victorian performances are indecent even by--especially by--today's standards. And while not for mixed company, they spoke to many in the coarse language and crude humor of daily experience. They were stories told readily in the bar; yet they became legally actionable offenses when fixed in wax and played on a phonograph in that same bar. These newly-discovered recordings play like soundtracks to the moving images of prize fighters, scarf dancers, and kissing lovers flickering on the kinetoscope--the other nickel entertainment in the bar. The records and films were produced in the same years, in the same studios, by the same people. They were enjoyed in tandem by the same audiences. They were accused of violating the same standards of decency in communities where they were profitably exhibited. And together, they presaged the clashes between morals and mass media that would erupt regularly during the century to follow. This CD presents these extraordinary recordings in their unexpurgated entirety. It allows us to hear uncut and uncensored what new technology made possible and the protectors of public morals made illegal: "indecent" performances driven out of business, off the public stage, and into the privacy of unmixed company in the home.
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Tuscany: A Romantic Journey -
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| Take a romantic journey across the fabled landscape of Tuscany with these beautiful, orchestral recordings of Italian classics. Instrumentation includes an orchestra.
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Broadway Gold -
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| Broadway Gold is an unforgettable collection of contemporary and classic songs from musicals. Broadway Gold is a choice sampling of some of the best songs from Broadway's hottest new musicals including Spring Awakening, Wicked, Spamalot, MAMMA MIA! and The Boy From Oz. Rounding out the collection are classics from Evita, Guys and Dolls and South Pacific. So please take your seats (and turn your cell phones off!) the show's about to begin... This collection is a "who's who" of contemporary and legendary entertainment names, including Sara Ramirez (Grey's Anatomy), Kristin Chenoweth (The West Wing), Idina Menzel (Rent), Hugh Jackman (X-Men), Mandy Patinkin (Criminal Minds), Patti LuPone, Carol Channing and Vivian Blaine. Booklet includes color production photos and an historical essay. All tracks newly remastered.
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Piano Favorites -
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Essential George Gershwin -
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| Given his seemingly effortless ability at melding such disparate forms as jazz and gospel with his own rare melodic gifts, it's not hard to view George Gershwin as America's first classical crossover artist. But as this glorious, 41-track double-disc introduction to Gershwin's epochal repertoire quickly demonstrates, that assessment woefully shortchanges the sheer grandeur of "Rhapsody in Blue" or the sultry earthiness of "Summertime." Singer and pop musicologist Michael Feinstein produced the set (as well as contributing a new recording of "Home Blues"), and under his guidance it understandably leans toward Gershwin's remarkable body of songcraft, though it also includes more concert-oriented pieces such as the "Rhapsody" and "Prelude No. 2," both in original performances by the composer. But Feinstein's loving sense of American pop song history insures that the performances here are both inspired and enlightening. Indeed, his choices represent not only a who's who of 20th-century pop and saloon singers--spanning a rich pantheon that includes Jolson, Kelly, Astaire, Holliday, Sinatra, Bennett, Waters, Torme, Clooney, Day, Vaughan, and Fitzgerald--but deftly underscore Gershwin's transcendent synthesis of style, era, and distinctly American subject matter. Also includes a written tribute by modern songwriter Diane Warren and an essay by Pulitzer Prize winner Tim Page. -?Jerry McCulley
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The Best of Beethoven -
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| The Best of Classical Kids CD series feature 55 ? 70 minutes of instrumental music from six major composers specially selected by Classical Kids producer Susan Hammond. Each compilation includes child-proven works first heard in the award-winning and best-selling Classical Kids series but extended and without narration. Each CD is an engaging and entertaining listening experience for all ages. Liner notes include fascinating facts about each composer plus an introduction to the award-winning Classical Kids CDs ? to build Classical Kids fans for the next generation.
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The Art of Conducting - Legendary Conductors of a Golden Era -
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Favourite Welsh Choirs -
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