[Met Concert or Gala] CID:110950



Easter Sunday Concert
Metropolitan Opera House, Sun, March 27, 1932




Easter Sunday Concert



Metropolitan Opera House
March 27, 1932


EASTER SUNDAY CONCERT

Scenery for Peter Ibbetson
designed by Joseph Urban


James P. Dunn: Overture on Negro Themes
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra

W. A. Fisher: Spanish Gold
Jacques Wolfe: Short'nin' Bread
Joseph Macpherson [Last appearance]
Kurt Ruhrseitz, Piano

Daniel Wolf: Iris
Lieurance: By the Waters of Minnetonka
Marion Bauer: Oriental
Harry Rowe Shelley: Love's Sorrow
Leonora Corona
Kurt Ruhrseitz, Piano

Gena Branscombe: At the Postern Gate
Kathleen Lockhart Manning: Hop-li the Rickshaw Man
Frederick Jagel
Edwin McArthur, Piano

Cadman: From the Land of the Sky Blue Water
Jacobowski: Lullaby
Mlle. Modiste: Kiss me again
Nannette Guilford [Last appearance]
Kurt Ruhrseitz, Piano

Peter Ibbetson: Act II, Scene 3, Duet
Queena Mario
Edward Johnson

Jacques Wolfe: De Glory Road
Lawrence Tibbett
Stewart Wille, Piano

Deems Taylor: Song for Lovers
Clara Edwards: The Fisher's Widow
Gladys Swarthout

New Moon: Wanting you
Grace Moore
Lawrence Tibbett


PART II

Scenery for Act I of PETER IBBETSON by Joseph Urban

FAVORITE AMERICAN SONGS
Arranged for voices and Jazz Band by Nathaniel Shilkret
["Jazz Band," a presentation of the National Broadcasting Company]

Sung by the American Ensemble of the Metropolitan Opera Company
Queena Mario, Grace Moore, Gladys Swarthout, Frederick Jagel, Edward Johnson, Lawrence Tibbett, Arthur Anderson
[The seven singers sang in chorus for the songs by Stephen Foster, while members of the group took turns as soloist.]

Thomas Griselle: Nocturne; March
[Thomas Griselle was First Prize Winner of the Victor Talking Machine Co.
contest for American Composition]

STEPHEN FOSTER SONGS

O Ring de Banjo
Banjo Solo

O Lemuel
Grace Moore

Nelly Bly
American Ensemble

O Boys, Carry Me 'Long
Edward Johnson
American Ensemble

Louisiana Belle
American Ensemble

De Camptown Races
Lawrence Tibbett
American Ensemble

Foster: Old Folks at Home
Gladys Swarthout
American Ensemble

Foster: Old Black Joe
Lawrence Tibbett
Arthur Anderson

Naughty Marietta: Italian Street Song
Queena Mario
American Ensemble

Ethelbert Nevin: My Desire
Frederick Jagel

Ethelbert Nevin: Mighty Lak a Rose
Grace Moore

Show Boat: Ol' man river
Lawrence Tibbett
American Ensemble

Conductor...............Wilfred Pelletier
Organ...................Erich Riede


Photograph of Wilfred Pelletier rehearsing artists for the Easter Sunday Concert.





Photograph of Wilfred Pelletier rehearsing artists for the Easter Sunday Concert.

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