A Broadway Evening With Sutton Foster
Keith Lockhart & Boston Pops
Boston Symphony Hall, 2016-05-26 [MP3|OGG]



Cover by aescalle.


"With two Tony awards to her name, she's the kind of star only Broadway can produce. But Sutton Foster's talents go well beyond the Great Wide Way. Now she brings those talents to the stage of Symphony Hall joining with Keith Lockhart in music by Cole Porter, Stephen Sondheim and much more.

Her own personal story could have been the plot of a Broadway show, but it's so improbable that even at the theatre it's a story most wouldn't believe. As a young understudy, she was thrust into the spotlight taking the leading role in Thoroughly Modern Millie. Amazingly she won the 2002 Tony Award for Best Lead Actress In A Musical. But Sutton Foster was only getting started. She went on to star in Little Women, Shrek the Musical and The Drowsy Chaperone before taking on the role of Reeno Sweeny in Anything Goes, a role that won her a second Tony Award in 2011.

Now she's here In Boston to sing with the Boston Pops and conductor Keith Lockhart during the second half of the concert you're about to hear. And before that, Keith and the Pops have really good music by Pops Laureate Conductor John Williams, and a young cellist performs one of the most elegant oboe of Tchaikovsky's works."


Introductory broadcast comments by Ron Della Chiesa

Broadway superstar Sutton Foster joins Keith Lockhart and the Boston Pops for selections from Anything Goes!, Thoroughly Modern Millie, The Bridges of Madison County, and much more. Also, cellist Edvard Pogossian is the soloist in Tchaikovsky's Rococo Variations, and Pops trumpeter Benjamin Wright is the soloist in the world premiere of Wizard, by Michael Martin.


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Track list:

01 - Ron Della Chiesa - Introduction
02 - @ - Midway: Men Of The Yorktown [John Williams]
03 - Ron Della Chiesa - Comments
04 - @ - Dracula: Night Journeys [John Williams]
05 - Ron Della Chiesa - Comments
06 - Keith Lockhart - Introduction To Benjamin Wright
07 - @ - Wizard [World Premiere] [Michael Martin]
08 - Ron Della Chiesa - Comments
09 - Keith Lockhart - Introduction To Edvard Pogossian
10 - Edvard Pogossian, @ - Variations On A Rococo Theme [Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky]
11 - Ron Della Chiesa - Comments
12 - @ - Sabre Dance [Aram Kachathurian]
13 - Ron Della Chiesa - Comments
14 - Ron Della Chiesa - Post-Intermission Comments
15 - @ - Hymn To New England [Album, ''American Visions''] [John Williams]
16 - Ron Della Chiesa - Comments
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17 - Keith Lockhart - Introduction To Sutton Foster
18 - Sutton Foster, @ - I'm Beginning To See The Light
[Duke Ellington, Don George, Johnny Hodges, Harry James]
19 - Sutton Foster, @ - Anything Goes [Cole Porter]
20 - Sutton Foster - Speech
21 - Sutton Foster, @ - I Get A Kick Out Of You [Cole Porter]
22 - Sutton Foster - Speech
23 - Sutton Foster, @ - The Bridges Of Madison County: All It Fades Away [Jason Robert Brown]
24 - Sutton Foster, @ - My Heart Was Set On You [Jeff Blumenkrantz]
25 - Sutton Foster, @ - Down With Love [Harold Arlen, E.Y. Harburg]
26 - Ron Della Chiesa - Comments
27 - Sutton Foster - Introduction To Kevin Kuhn And Michael Rafter
28 - Sutton Foster, @ - If I Were a Bell / Singin' In The Rain
[Frank Loesser / Nacio Herb Brown, Arthur Freed]
29 - Sutton Foster - Introduction To Megan McGinnis
30 - Sutton Foster, Megan McGinnis, @ - Flight [Craig Carnelia]
31 - Sutton Foster - 8-Track Tapes (Speech)
32 - Sutton, @ - Sunshine In My Shoulders [John Denver, Richard Kniss, Mike Taylor]
33 - Suttton Foster - Acknowledgements
34 - Sutton Foster, @ - Anyone Can Whistle / Being Alive [Stephen Sondheim]
35 - Ron Della Chiesa - Comments
36 - Sutton Foster, @ - On My Way To You / Thoroughly Modern Millie: Gimme Gimme [Encore]
[Alan Bergman, Marilyn Bergman, Michel Legrand / Dick Scanlan, Jeanine Tesori]
37 - Ron Della Chiesa - Comments
38 - John Williams & Boston Pops Orchestra - A Chorus Line: Overture [Album, ''On Stage''] [Marvin Hamlisch]
39 - Ron Della Chiesa - Final Comments And Acknowledgements


@ = Keith Lockhart & Boston Pops Orchestra

Duration: 01:56:59.976




(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlCZutwVlzQ)

One of the great moments in the history of entertainment.

About the formats:

Both downloads are re-encodings of the broadcasted audio, a variable bitrate MP3. That format is awful for using with cue sheets, or at least it goes terribly wrong in any player I know (except maybe in foobar2000: their FAQ mentions a slow library scan that builds a positions database). Splitting it to single MP3 tracks is not optimal for live events like concerts, because the short silences that the encoders add to the beginning and end of every splitted track are unavoidable; and the information from files encoded with the "nogap" options of LAME is not used by all players.

So, after discarding the waste of space of a 500 MiB FLAC, I did those two re-encodings that allow the navigation of a gapless track list:

- Single MP3 file, 320 kbps, constant bitrate that works well with cue sheets.
- Tracks into separate files, Ogg-Vorbis "-q 9" (up to 500 kbps), a format gapless by design.

The first versions were 192 kbps. I was happy with them because their sizes were comparable to the original file and the quality was very good. But I felt at risk of punishment by the Universe for not reencoding at maximum quality, and some fellows would've felt a bit dissapointed (like I would, to be honest). Besides, you know, the source VBR file can reach 320 kbps temporarily, and 192 CBR can not, right? Whatever the difference, real or imagined, noticeable or not, we can't afford freaking out about quality for a few dozens of megabytes! So, let be it, doubling size for top quality reencodings.

The URL of the original VBR file and a .cue sheet for it are included in the archives, should anyone prefer it, intend to test the audio player or need to encode differently.

Two download options (type suttonpops16 to extract the files):


Single MP3 file + .cue sheet (https://ulozto.net/!vKXTr2mbFvez/abem-7z) (274.2 MiB)

Splitted Ogg-Vorbis tracks (https://ulozto.net/!aLot0Y4cQbEK/abeo-7z) (255.7 MiB)


Enjoy.

Thank you very much for this, Kooke! I thoroughly enjoyed it from start to finish.

Since I'm on it, here's the comments I made about this concert in the Orchestral Thread:


I discovered Sutton Foster a few months back when I saw Shrek the Musical, and fell immediately in love with her great singing (she's one of the best singers I've heard), and her remarkable, intelligent, funny acting. She's a real music-hall beast, a show-business performer of the highest caliber. One of these multi-faceted talents that Broadway manages to produce.

So, what a nice surprise it was to see her in this special concert with the Boston Pops. As usual, she doesn't disappoint. Her performance during this event is nearly flawless, with even some moment of pure grace that deeply strike your heart (I recommend you first listen to "Anyone Can Whistle / Being Alive" as an exemple of this).

Also not to be missed here, a bunch of nice instrumental pieces (including some rare Williams pieces) by the Boston Pops, my favorite being "Dracula: Night Journeys", a dark, eerie, mysterious piece by Williams which clearly reminds of the - exceptional - suspense music of the first Indiana Jones.

I'd also like to salute Kooke's amazing work of ripping from the broadcast, trimming, tagging, writing a neat post, and uploading this beauty for us to enjoy. Great job, mate!

Thank you!

Thanks for your efforts!
Very enjoyable program!

Ii order to unzip the link it requires a password.
Can you post it?

Two download options (type suttonpops16 to extract the files)


I agree, though, not the most visible password in history. I also had to look twice.

You're welcome, friends; I hope you enjoy it.

Thanks for the kind words, arthierr. When I got this concert, it kept playing in loop along with another album for several hours without boring me. Foster is really a superb Broadway artist, great in as many aspects as musicals require. I agree with your sample selection and I would extend it, for example to the job in the lively "Down with love", ending with the fun one-octave glissando downwards and the final note two octaves higher, lol; and on the lyrical side, to the lovely duet with McGinnis in "Flight". The first time I heard it, it took all my attention from everything else.

There are almost no images of this in the net; the pictures of the event I included are from a promo video of BSO for her concert with them this year (which I don't have). If anyone has, drop them here, please.

And please excuse the inconveniences with the password, guys. I got used to put it that way since I saw for first time deletions on mega, years ago. The idea was to add a bit of difficulty for automations scanning the forum and have bigger chances to save the files or the account from deletion. I don't upload to mega anymore and the service I'm using, despite not fast, is quite reliable, so I may try returning to the usual way in future uploads.

Thank you very much :)

Thank you kind sir for your excellent work - it is most pleasing to the ear.

Thanks for a great share - finally got the file to open using Keka - no other unpacker would work on it!

Yes, for 7-zip files, Keka is the best choice in Mac. It's recommended in their official web https://www.7-zip.org/download.html

You're welcome, folks; enjoy.

Thank you

Thank you very much, indeed!!!

I really appreciate this title,my friend.

I could listen all day long to Foster's singing voice. She is an amazing talent.