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Classical Notes: March 8, 2012 Archive
On the Air This Week
Posted at 11:19 AM on March 8, 2012
by Rex Levang
Filed under: On the air
Highlights from March 8 to 13
Thursday, 3 pm hour: Regional Spotlight: Ysaye Quartet
Friday, 8 pm: Minnesota Orchestra: Liszt, Strauss, and Berlioz
Saturday, 11 am: Metropolitan Opera: Mozart's Don Giovanni
Sunday, 6 am: Pipedreams: The American Organ Institute
Sunday, noon: From the Top
Sunday, 1 pm: SymphonyCast: The Los Angeles Philharmonic and Gustavo Dudamel in Mahler's Ninth
Monday, 7 pm: Roll Credits
Monday, 8 pm: Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra: Music of Muffat, Brahms, and others
Audra McDonald & Stephen Colbert: Gershwin rapport on the Colbert Report
Posted at 11:42 AM on March 8, 2012
by John Birge
Nice of Audra McDonald to take a night off from her Broadway run of Porgy and Bess to visit The Colbert Report and sing "Summertime" in duet with Stephen Colbert. But first she has to explain to Stephen that Gershwin's iconic opera is actually NOT about Colbert:
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And now that you've watched the conversation, you can fully appreciate Audra's hilariously non-PC gag in the duet:
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And lest we forget, Colbert has sung Sondheim with the New York Philharmonic, and even sung opera in Italy, as the omniscient Alex Ross points out.
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