A Prairie Home Companion
with Garrison Keillor
and guests "Spider" John Koerner, guitar and vocals
Dan Dressen, tenor
Elizabeth Nelson [?], sporano
The Prairie Home Companion Pro Arte Orchestra
Philip Brunelle, harpsichord and conducting
live at
The World Theater
St. Paul, Minnesota USA
recorded in December, pre-1987*
repeat broadcast in December of 1989
on NPR/WGBH-FM Boston
[incomplete broadcast]

Pre-Christmas Program
with a chamber orchestra instead of the usual band arrangements.

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91:26 minutes

tracklisting:

Disc 1 57:10 minutes

Part 1
101 01 stage intro 1 1:38
102 02 stage intro 2 1:02
103 03 Medley 3:15
104 04 stage intro 0:37
105 05 Audience singalong 5:11
106 06 "On the Road to Boston",
Traditional, Gunther Schuller arrangement 3:17
107 07 "The Cough" 6:35
108 08 "The Steamboat Waltz",
Traditional, Gunther Schuller arrangement 1:02
109 09 stage intro 1:48
110 10 "The Ice Music"
- music G.F. Handel, lyrics and narration G. Keillor etc 20:48
111 11 stage announcements (fades out) 1:28
112 12 "The Christmas Song",
- Mel Torm� and Bob Wells [1944],
additional lyrics by G. Keillor etc. 2:03
113 13 stage intro 2:05
114 14 "La Donna � mobile",
Giuseppe Verdi, from the opera "Rigoletto [1851];
additional lyrics by G. Keillor etc 2:15
115 15 2:20
116 16 0:54
117 17 outro 0:42


Disc 2 38:16 minutes

Part 2 [incomplete]
201 18 Medley, Percy Grainger tunes 3:24
202 19 stage intro 3:53
203 20 "The Frozen Fountain",
Patricia Hampl, lyrics
and Libby Larsen, music from her cantata "In a Winter Garden" [1982] 4:10
204 21 stage intro 0:44
205 22 Garrison Keillor: "The Cowboy's Christmas" 5:26
206 23 stage intro for John Koerner 1:30
207 24 John Koerner: "Sail Away Ladies" 3:30
208 25 John Koerner: "The Danville Girl" 3:53
209 26 Garrison Keillor: "A Letter from a Friend" [cut short] 7:41
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info
* undated cassette;
radio announcer during the broadcast identified the re-broadcast date.
PHC ceased full-time production in 1987 and was revived in 1993.


NOTE: Sound quality is acceptable but imperfect,
with suppressed FM hiss and minor flaws.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Prairie_Home_Companion

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Koerner

http://www.mwt.net/~koerner/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunther_Schuller

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libby_Larsen

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percy_Grainger

source/lineage:
FM broadcast;FM tuner>normal-bias cassette>PC>stereo 16-bit 44.1 kbps WAV>
tracked and edited in audio editor>WAVs>
SBEs repaired, checksum files and FLAC-8 files created in Trader's Little Helper

A Zootype project, December 1989 - December 2013