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Sousa: El Capitan / Hobson, Beer, Dolter, Edwards, Et Al


Release Date: 02/01/1998 
Label:  Zephyr   Catalog #: 11097   Spars Code: DDD 
Composer:  John Philip Sousa
Performer:  Mary Ann McCormick,  Gerald Dolter,  Lucille Beer,  Richard Schacht,   ... 
Conductor:  Ian Hobson
Orchestra/Ensemble:  Sinfonia da Camera,  University of Illinois Chorale,  University of Illinois Concert Band
Number of Discs: 2 
Recorded in: Stereo 
Length: 1 Hours 39 Mins. 

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This was the most successful of Sousa’s 15 operas but it still needed far more restoration than Joplin’s Treemonisha before it could reach full performance. Fisher and Martin have made a convincing authentic realization as opposed to the various extracts and adaptations that have done the rounds. The marches emerge triumphantly but Sousa was not limited to his most characteristic genre, although tied to his European operetta models in Offenbach and Sullivan. The story of El capitan is replete with mistaken identity and ensuing subterfuge, but it’s well sung and spoken here and provides a genuine missing link.'

-- Peter Dickinson, Gramophone [3/1999]
 This was the most successful of Sousa’s 15 operas but it still needed far more restoration than Joplin’s Treemonisha before it could reach full performance. Fisher and Martin have made a convincing authentic realization as opposed to the various extracts and adaptations that have done the rounds. The marches emerge triumphantly but Sousa was not limited to his most characteristic genre, although tied to his European operetta models in Offenbach and Sullivan. The story of El capitan is replete with mistaken identity and ensuing subterfuge, but it’s well sung and spoken here and provides a genuine missing link.'

-- Peter Dickinson, Gramophone [3/1999]
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Works on This Recording

1. El Capitan (operetta) by John Philip Sousa
Performer:  Mary Ann McCormick (Mezzo Soprano), Gerald Dolter (Baritone), Lucille Beer (Mezzo Soprano),
Richard Schacht (Bass), Donald Hartmann (Bass Baritone), Darryl Edwards (Tenor),
Harold Gray Meers (Tenor), Sherri Karam (Soprano), Andy Bade (Bass),
Donna Elyashar (Spoken Vocals), Douglas Webster (Baritone), Robert Daniel Goulet (Baritone)
Conductor:  Ian Hobson
Orchestra/Ensemble:  Sinfonia da Camera,  University of Illinois Chorale,  University of Illinois Concert Band
Period: Romantic 
Written: 1895; USA 
 Date of Recording: 09/1997 

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