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Music for a While #92: A few of our favorite things
38 minutes Posted Nov 21, 2024 at 12:02 am.
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This episode begins with Mozart—the glorious, peppy last movement of a piano concerto—and ends with Sarah Vaughan, singing a song (“Black Coffee”). In between we have Bill Monroe, Fanny Mendelssohn, Earl Scruggs—a real variety show. But all to a purpose.
Mozart, Piano Concerto No. 14 in E flat, K. 449, last movement
Clarke, “The Cloths of Heaven”
Monroe, “Blue Moon of Kentucky”
Bernstein, “Some Other Time”
Mendelssohn, Fanny, arr. Masur, Ken-David, “Schöne Fremde”
Dunhill, “The Cloths of Heaven”
Kern, “Why Was I Born?”
Scruggs, “Foggy Mountain Breakdown”
Burke, “Black Coffee”