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March 10, 2007
Coming up this week on A Prairie Home Companion, we've got another special compilation show drawn from the dusty shelves of our underground tape vault, featuring some of the best opera from our archives. It's the l'atto finale of our spring break with Renée Fleming appearing as the great diva Renata Flambe, and Maria Jette singing the "Jell-O Aria." Susan Graham is with us, as well as Bryn Terfel, Mark Thomsen, and Danny the Opera Dog. It's all coming up this week on A Prairie Home Companion.
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| Segment 1 |
| 00:00:00 | Logo |
| 00:00:12 | Tishomingo Blues |
| 00:00:56 | GK Open |
| 00:03:58 | "Vilia" from "The Merry Widow" and "O Mio Babbino Caro" from "Gianni Schicchi", Renée Fleming and Lee Musiker |
| 00:13:08 | "La Influenza" Garrison Keillor, Vern Sutton, Janis Hardy, Maria Jette, The Ensemble Singers of the Plymouth Music Series, The Lake Wobegon String Quartet, Rich Dworsky and Shoes |
| 00:33:20 | GK Annc. |
| 00:33:54 | Powdermilk Break |
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| Segment 2 |
| 00:35:30 | Guy Noir w/Renée Fleming |
| 00:52:37 | GK Intermission Credits |
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| Segment 3 |
| 00:58:45 | GK Welcome Back/ Annc. Met Opera |
| 01:01:03 | Opera script |
| 01:10:45 | GK Annc. |
| 01:11:43 | "The Gasman Cometh" and "My Little Welsh Home" Bryn Terfel and John Fisher |
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| Segment 4 |
| 01:18:29 | The News from Lake Wobegon |
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| Segment 5 |
| 01:32:11 | GK Annc./"Humoresque" - Pat Donohue and Shoes |
| 01:33:20 | "La donna e mobile" from "Rigoletto" - Mark Thomsen and Sonya Thompson |
| 01:35:23 | Danny the Opera Dog script |
| 01:46:44 | "Voi Che Sapete" from "The Marriage of Figaro" and "Scene" and "Habanera" from Carmen, Susan Graham with the Pro Arte Chamber Orch. |
| 01:53:35 | GK Credits |
| 01:54:48 | "Jell-O Aria" - Maria Jette with Rich Dworsky, Andy Stein and Gary Raynor |
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From Garrison Keillor:
“When I was 16, Helen Fleischman assigned me to memorize Shakespeare’s Sonnet No. 29, ‘When in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes, I all alone beweep my outcast state’ for English class, and fifty years later, that poem is still in my head. Algebra got washed away, and geometry and most of biology, but those lines about the redemptive power of love in the face of shame are still here behind my eyeballs, more permanent than my own teeth. The sonnet is a durable good. These 77 of mine include sonnets of praise, some erotic, some lamentations, some street sonnets and a 12-sonnet cycle of months. If anything here offends, I beg your pardon, I come in peace, I depart in gratitude.”
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Robin & Linda Williams are among the most popular guest performers of A Prairie Home Companion (they also appeared in the movie, have performed as part of the The Hopeful Gospel Quartet, and made appearances as Marvin & Mavis Smiley). This CD features some of the duo's best harmonies from the show. Among the 12 tracks are familiar fan favorites, including "For Better or Worse", "Visions of Mother and Dad", "Tied Down, Home Free" and the title track. A collection that is muy bueno!
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