An American Songbook

Title: An American Songbook
Description: Samuel Barber (1910-1981)
Knoxville, Summer of 1915

"One More Kiss" from Follies, 1971
(Stephen Sondheim)

"All the Things You Are" from Very Warm for May, 1940
(Jerome Kern)

"Art is Calling for Me (I Want to be a Prima Donna)" from The Enchantress, 1911
(Victor Herbert/Harry B. Smith)

"Someone to Watch Over Me" from Oh Kay! 1926
(George Gershwin/Ira Gershwin)

"Let's Fall in Love" from Let's Fall in Love (Harold Arlen/Ted Koehler)

"To Keep My Love Alive" from a Connecticut Yankee (Richard Rodgers/Lorenz Hart)

"Hello Young Lovers" from The King and I, 1951
(Richard Rodgers/Oscar Hammerstein II)

"I Remember Sky" from Evening Primrose (Stephen Sondheim)

"One More Kiss" from Follies (Stephen Sondheim)
Creator: The Los Angeles Philharmonic presents
Hollywood Bowl 96
Date: August 21, 1996

Hollywood Bowl
Los Angeles, CA
Contributor: Hollywood Bowl Orchestra
John Mauceri, principal conductor
Sylvia McNair, soprano
Type: Orchestra concert

Newspaper article review
Relation: "A Stylish Soprano for All Seasons"
by Mark Swed

Los Angeles Times
August 23, 1996