September 28, 1996
 Live from the Roy Wilkins Auditorium in St. Paul, Minnesota, with Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra and Butch Thompson.

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00:00Logo
00:11TISHOMINGO BLUES
01:45Garrison Keillor introduces Fitzgerald Show
06:47FOXTROT by Frank Martin - The St. Paul Chamber Orchestra
11:15THE CRACK-UP read by Garrison Keillor, Donald Hall, Tobias Wolff, and Micheal Dorris
21:16Applause - Garrison Keillor introduces THE GREAT GATSBY
23:27Reading from THE GREAT GATSBY
33:51VALSE by William Walton - The St. Paul Chamber Orchestra
36:56GK talk about Fitzgerald with Roger Kennedy, Scott Donaldson, Eleanor Lanahan Lanahan, and Frances Kroll Ring
46:00SOLACE-Butch Thompson and the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra
100:29Applause
100:58Segue to Intermission -- I'LL TAKE YOU HOME AGAIN, KATHLEEN
104:30Welcome Back
119:44REMEMBERING GATSBY - performed by the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra
126:30Garrison Keillor converses with Hugh Wolff
128:04Donald Hall reads poems - "200th Birthday" and "The Shirt"
131:00Reading from "Absolution"
144:05Garrison Keillor and authors - conversation about Fitzgerald
155:00Francis Kroll Ring reads from TENDER IS THE NIGHT
158:05That's our show

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