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Garrison Keillor and the VocalEssence Ensemble Singers
Hymn to Potatoes and Other Choral Masterworks from a Prairie Home Companion
Genres: Special Interest, Pop

Track Listings (16) - Disc #1
1. Songs of the Sons of Bernie (Franz Schubert, Garrison Keillor)
2. A Word About Schubert - An die Musik, Hymn to Potatoes
3. Ave Maria (Franz Schubert)
4. Dutch Calvinism: The T.U.L.I.P. Doctrine - Out Faithful God, We Gather Together, Doxology (Garrison Keillor)
5. Come Live with Me and Be My Love (John Rutter)
6. Brahms in Love - Wiegenlied, Liebeslieder Walzer (Johannes Brahms, Garrison Keillor)
7. Two Folk Songs - Y Bore Glas (Early Dawning), I Denna Ljuva Sommartid (Song of Summer) (arr. Mansel Thomas, Anders Ã?hrwall)
8. The "Shenandoah" Syndrome (Arr. Paul Gerike, Garrison Keillor)
9. Julie (Lennon/McCartney, arr. Paul Gerike, Richard Dworsky)
10. The Runaway Choir - Spring, the Sweet Spring, Sugar Sugar, Aquarius, Mandy, Bohemian Rhapsody, Karma Chameleon, Copacabana, Sunshine on My Shoulders, Memory (arr. Paul Gerike, Garrison Keillor)
11. Norwegian Independence - Kan Du Glemme Gamle Norge, Serenade, Landkjenning, Aftensolen (Garrison Keillor)
12. Holy Trinity Lutheran Seeks Music Director (Garrison Keillor with Philip Brunelle at the piano)
13. Beulah Land (John R. Sweeney)
14. The Choral News from Lake Wobegone - Now Thank We All Our God, Sanctus, America the Beautiful, April Is in My Mistress's Face, Hymn to the Trinity (Garrison Keillor)
15. Something (George Harrison, arr. Paul Gerike)
16. Spring Fever (Franz Schubert, Garrison Keillor)

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All Artists: Garrison Keillor and the VocalEssence Ensemble Singers
Title: Hymn to Potatoes and Other Choral Masterworks from a Prairie Home Companion
Members Wishing: 2
Total Copies: 0
Label: VocalEssence Records
Release Date: 6/1/2005
Genres: Special Interest, Pop
Styles: Poetry, Spoken Word & Interviews, Vocal Pop
Number of Discs: 2
SwapaCD Credits: 2
UPC: 643157371298

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Product Description

Who knew a choir could be this funny? Garrison Keillor and the VocalEssence Singers dish up a generous helping of potatoes à la Schubert, run away to Europe to indulge their "Shenandoah" habit and enlighten us on the T.U.L.I.P. doctrine. Enjoy the best choral skits and bits from tens years of a Prairie Home Companion on this two-disc set.

CD Reviews

Hymn to Potatoes - brilliant!

Martin Collin | Tel Aviv, Israel | 11/18/2007

(5 out of 5 stars)

"This CD pulls together Garrison Keiler's gentle humour and good Christian hymnology, well performed by an excellent choir, with an added touch of fun that makes it a delight to listen to - just as it is to listen to a session of Prairie Home Companion. It makes me feel at home, and it's also inspirational. Great recording!"