Remembering Anthony Rolfe Johnson

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Sunday, July 25, 2010

This week’s Choral Fixation includes a tribute to Anthony Rolfe Johnson, the British tenor who passed away this week. You’ll hear him sing a Bach cantata. 

Also included in the show are:

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Ave verum corpus, K. 618 (Hail, true flesh born)

Eric Whitacre: Three Songs of Faith

Gabriela Lena Frank: Two Mountain Songs: Picaflor Esmeralda

Giuseppe Verdi: La Forza del destino: La vergine degli Angeli

Claude Debussy: Trois Chansons

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Martha,

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Jul. 27 2010 10:48 AM
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Martha from princeton

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Jul. 25 2010 11:32 PM
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