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Prelude. An American original: John Jacob Niles -- Part I. Vox humana. Tito Gobbi: Good and evil -- Geraint Evans: the outsider -- Leibestod. Jon Vickers -- Birgit Nilsson -- Salzburg, Josef Krips -- Irmgard Seefried -- Elisabeth Schwarzkopf -- Diva. Rosa Raisa -- Edith Mason -- American-born. Marian Anderson -- Richard Tucker -- Catherine Malfitano -- The instrument. Andrés Segovia -- Ravi Shankar -- Alfred Brendel -- Garrick Ohlsson -- Nicolas Slonimsky -- Composers. Virgil Thomson -- Aaron Copland -- Leonard Bernstein -- Impresario (1). Sol Hurok -- Part II. Jazz. Lil Armstrong -- Louis Armstrong -- Earl Hines -- Dizzy Gillespie -- Betty Carter -- Henry Threadgill -- Keith Jarrett -- Impresario (2). John Hammond Sr. -- Part III. Spirituals, blues, folk, rock. Thomas A Dorsey -- Mahalia Jackson -- Big Bill Broonzy -- Emanual Dunn -- Bob Dylan -- Woody Guthrie -- Pete Seeger -- Jean Ritchie -- Janis Joplin -- Impresario (3). Alan Lomax -- Part IV. Variations on the theme. Larry Adler -- Richard Dyer-Bennett -- Julian Lee Rayford -- Postlude. A graceful goodbye. Lotte Lehmann. |
