Topic “Garrison Keillor”

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Garrison Keillor

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Stories & Comedy for You and Your Poor Old Parents with Garrison Keillor

Songs, stories and humorous sketches from the bard of Lake Wobegon, collected from live radio broadcasts of “A Prairie Home Companion.” This 2-CD set includes the Ensemble Singers' lively El Hambo by Jaakko Mantyjarvi. Plus The Snow Queen, an epic retelling of the Hans Christian Andersen tale with choral accompaniment provided by the Ensemble Singers.

Over the River and Through the Woods

Garrison Keillor

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VocalEssence, Garrison Keillor and The Hopeful Gospel Quartet

On November 23, 2004, the Hopeful Gospel Quartet — Garrison Keillor, Mollie O’Brien and Robin & Linda Williams — traded musical moments with the VocalEssence Chorus and Ensemble Singers in a concert at Orchestra Hall, Minneapolis. The evening seamlessly blended American folk traditions with choral masterpieces old and new, from “Will the Circle Be Unbroken” to “Now Thank We All Our God.” Garrison Keillor shared his Thanksgiving memories in a hilarious yet poignant monologue. Thanks to Minnesota Public Radio, the evening was captured for posterity in this charming two-CD set.

disc one
1 Will the Circle Be Unbroken - Hopeful Gospel Quartet
2 Goodbye to My Uncles - Garrison Keillor
3 Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing - Hopeful Gospel Quartet
We Gather Together - VocalEssence Chorus
4 Walking in the Spirit - Hopeful Gospel Quartet
5 Welcome - Garrison Keillor
6 For the Beauty of the Earth - Audience
7 I Am a Pilgrim - Hopeful Gospel Quartet
8 Pursuit of Happiness - VocalEssence Ensemble Singers
9 Morning Has Broken - Audience
10 He’s Right on Time - Hopeful Gospel Quartet
11 A Psalm - Garrison Keillor
12 Zion’s Walls - VocalEssence Chorus
13 Rivers of Babylon - Hopeful Gospel Quartet
14 O Herbst - VocalEssence Ensemble Singers
15 Calling My Children Home - Hopeful Gospel Quartet
16 Another Psalm - Garrison Keillor
17 Praise, O Praise the Great Creator - VocalEssence Chorus
18 Couldn’t Keep It to Myself - Hopeful Gospel Quartet
19 An Anthem for Thanksgiving - VocalEssence Chorus
How Happy I Am - Hopeful Gospel Quartet
20 Thanksgiving Recollections - Garrison Keillor
21 Thanks Be to God - VocalEssence Chorus

disc two
1 El Hambo - VocalEssence Ensemble Singers
You Don’t Knock - Hopeful Gospel Quartet
Light from the Lighthouse - Hopeful Gospel Quartet
2 A Thanksgiving to God, for His House - VocalEssence Ensemble Singers
3 Monologue - Garrison Keillor
4 Schubert: Psalm 23 - VocalEssence Ensemble Singers
5 How Great Thou Art - Hopeful Gospel Quartet & Chorus
6 Now Thank We All Our God - Audience
7 Irish Heartbeat - Hopeful Gospel Quartet & Chorus

Hymn to Potatoes

Garrison Keillor

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and other choral masterworks from A Prairie Home Companion
Garrison Keillor and the VocalEssence Ensemble Singers

Who knew a choir could be this funny? Garrison Keillor, Philip Brunelle and the VocalEssence Ensemble Singers dish up a generous helping of Potatoes a la Schubert, run away to Europe to indulge their “Shenandoah” habit, and enlighten us on the T.U.L.I.P. doctrine. This two-CD set of the best choral skits and bits from 10 years on A Prairie Home Companion includes the often-requested “Julia” (John Lennon) and a rare choral interpretation of “Karma Chamelon” (Boy George). With Charles Kemper and Richard Dworsky at the piano, The Guy's All-Star Shoe Band and guest appearances by Tom Keith and Tim Russell.

TRACK LISTING

DISC ONE
1 Song of the Sons of Bernie (Franz Schubert, Garrison Keillor)
2 A Word about Schubert (Garrison Keillor)
An die Musik, Hymn to Potatoes
3 Ave Maria (Franz Schubert)
4 Dutch Calvinism: The T.U.L.I.P. Doctrine (Garrison Keillor)
Our Faithful God, We Gather Together, Doxology
5 Come Live with Me and Be My Love (John Rutter)
6 Brahms in Love (Johannes Brahms, Garrison Keillor)
Wiegenlied, Liebeslieder Walzer
7 Two Folk Songs (arr. Mansel Thomas, Anders Öhrwall)
Y Bore Glas (Early Dawning), I Denna Ljuva Sommartid (Song of Summer)
8 The “Shenandoah” Syndrome (arr. Paul Gerike, Garrison Keillor)
9 Julia (Lennon/McCartney, arr. Paul Gerike, Richard Dworsky)

DISC TWO
1 The Runaway Choir (arr. Paul Gerike, Garrison Keillor)
Spring, the Sweet Spring, Sugar Sugar, Aquarius, Mandy, Bohemian Rhapsody, Karma Chameleon, Copacabana, Sunshine on My Shoulders, Memory
2 Norwegian Independence (Garrison Keillor)
Kan Du Glemme Gamle Norge, Serenade, Landkjenning, Aftensolen
3 Holy Trinity Lutheran Seeks Music Director
Garrison Keillor with Philip Brunelle at the piano
4 Beulah Land (John R. Sweney)
5 The Choral News from Lake Wobegon (Garrison Keillor)
Now Thank We All Our God, Sanctus, America the Beautiful, April Is in My Mistress’s Face, Hymn to the Trinity
6 Something (George Harrison, arr. Paul Gerike)
7 Spring Fever (Franz Schubert, Garrison Keillor)

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