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Sunday Afternoon at the Opera - Sousa: El Capitán
Sunday Afternoon at the Opera host Keith Brown writes:
What I have to offer you on this Sunday of the Memorial Day holiday weekend is absolutely red, white, and blue. Everybody knows John Philip Sousa's "El Capitán" march: nothing could be more vibrantly American in spirit. The tune in that March came from Sousa's comic operetta El Capitán (1895). Yes, believe it or not, the March King composed 15 operettas for the American lyric stage. El Capitán was his most popular and significant work in that genre.
Jerrold Fischer and William Martin restored Sousa's original score for the 1997 Zephyr compact disc recording of El Capitán. It was made in the big hall of the Kannert Center for the Performing Arts at the University of Illinois Urbana. Ian Hobson directs the Sinfonia da Camera, with the University of Illinois Chorale and Band, plus vocal soloists. I last broadcast the two Zephyr CD's on Sunday, the Fourth of July, 1999.
Keep listening for concert, theater and parlor songs of John Philip Sousa (1854-1932), as interpreted by soprano, Joyce Guyer, and baritone, Michael Wilson (a 1991 Preiser CD release).