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Summary:

Actor Bill Murray met cellist Jan Vogler on a trans-Atlantic flight. The two struck up a friendship and soon had the idea to work together on a project, a program of classical music, singing and literature that would reflect on the great values of American culture.

Table of Contents:

• The swan / Camille Saint-Saëns ; "Blessing the boats" / Lucille Clifton (2:49)
• From "Song of the open road" and "Song of myself" / Walt Whitman (3:41)
• Prelude from Suite for cello solo no. 1 in G major, BWV 1007 / Johann Sebastian Bach (2:29)
• Andante un poco mosso, from Trio no. 1 in B-flat major, D. 898 / Franz Schubert ; from "The deerslayer" / James Fenimore Cooper (5:30)
• It ain't necessarily so : from Porgy and Bess / George Gershwin (5:13)
• Muerte del ángel / Astor Piazzola (3:09)
• When will I ever learn to live in God / Van Morrison ; arr. Stephen Buck (5:36)
• Moon river / Henry Mancini ; from "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" / Mark Twain (15:58)
• I dream of Jeannie with the light brown hair / Stephen Foster (5:46)
• Blues, from Sonata for violin and piano / Maurice Ravel ; "If Grant had been drinking at Appomattox" / James Thurber (7:13)
• Selections from West Side story. Somewhere (2:58) ; I feel pretty (2:03) ; America (2:33) / Leonard Bernstein ; arr. Stephen Buck.

Contributors:

Murray, Bill, 1950 September 21- , speaker, singer

Vogler, Jan, 1964- , instrumentalist

Perez, Vanessa , instrumentalist

Wang, Mira , instrumentalist

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Other Related Resources:

Source record: New worlds ([New York] : Decca Gold, [2017] — ISBN 9786317034624; OCLC Number 995413216)

Subjects:

Monologues with music (Instrumental ensemble)

Popular music — 2011-2020

Suites (Cello) — Excerpts

Piano trios

Musicals — Excerpts

2011-2020

Popular music

Suites (Cello)

Musicals

Genres:

Monologues (Music)

Poetry

Popular music

Suites

Preludes (Music)

Musicals

Excerpts

Performers:

Bill Murray, speaker (tracks 1-2, 4, 8-10), vocals (tracks 5, 7, 9, 11-13) ; Jan Vogler, cello (tracks 1, 3-4, 6-8, 11-13) ; Vanessa Perez, piano (tracks 1, 4-13) ; Mira Wang, violin (tracks 4-7, 9-13).

Performance Medium:

4 performers: piano; violin; cello; voice

General Notes:

Recorded 2017 April DiMenna Center for Classical Music, New York City.
Description based on: Hard copy version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 audio file)

Audio Characteristics:

digital

Digital Characteristics:

audio file

Call Numbers:

Online Audio

Other Standard Numbers:

International Standard Recording Code: USUM71707714
International Standard Recording Code: USUM71707717
International Standard Recording Code: USUM71707718
International Standard Recording Code: USUM71707719
International Standard Recording Code: USUM71707720
International Standard Recording Code: USUM71707723
International Standard Recording Code: USUM71707727
International Standard Recording Code: USUM71707722
International Standard Recording Code: USUM71707724
International Standard Recording Code: USUM71707725
International Standard Recording Code: USUM71707795
International Standard Recording Code: USUM71707726
International Standard Recording Code: USUM71707794
Publisher Number, Decca: 00028948157921

OCLC Numbers:

1035639642