Roberta Peters

the nino the pope there's so much music to play roberta peters is one of the reigning singers of our time but mired by a vast public and respected by critics and fellow musicians the world over in september of nineteen sixty nine has peter's consented to perform an unusual concert on the occasion of the annual milton s hershey day in hershey pennsylvania in the audience were over one thousand young men from the

milton hershey school selections from that concert as well as ms peters reflections upon her career in music from her home in scarsdale new york we are pleased to pose to pay many

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eight any aides are the pain as an opera singer i would start with that kind of a group and so the first number was or tried it was alive my hand and

i like to do at aria that is very very close to my heart before i introduce to you might be on the list the power air at

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loon the pain this young man is called the most votes but he's a character in the opera the magic flute are no brain which i was supposed to make my debut of course magic flute is by mozart is as you know the great genius of the operatic world of the music world the genius of mozart's compositions i think is that they appear in some instances to be so simple and yet they are the most difficult to do he is a very simple beautiful melody a line that you would seen anyone do it to just kind of

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pope i think you can it operate and popular songs in concert by deciding what kind of an audience you see they are independents if he would have young audiences we have in hershey i thought that i should include some of those numbers because they would enjoy it be able to sit back and relax and relate more to that kind of music and the other but i wouldn't do a whole concert popular things i think you've tried to bring to them something unfamiliar and therefore raise their taste as well and now onto our like their portion of the program which i don't believe you have a new programs but we do start with some

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air anyone who needed the pick this is a personal favorite and although we didn't include it in today's concert it's has a great deal for me i feel that as a part of me i've done it i guess more times than any other but debbie it that it's funny songs

of spain in the spanish people are very close to me i feel that they've gone through so much history as it's been very sad most of it in this composer captures this or were there many contrasts to the group the first i think the first two numbers have a sad melancholy feel to the last one of course is st louis right spirit didn't you just feel as if there are horses racing through it you know i think it's something that we like to tell a spanish contemporary spanish composer named liao qi illegal they were before so those which we usually do without stopping linden and you're a

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bohemian girl which i did in london and says sir thomas beecham the famous conductor and here i am in a long way this was during a curtain call as you can see their flags place this little girl played me as a little girl in the story and it was a great experience i hadn't said thomas hero will he was knowing at the time you had a reputation for being very short extremely witty but could really tear a person down very quickly fled with his whip he was always charming and he was a marvelous to me when i was there and hitting me one day he said to me if you don't do such and such i'll bore you with oreo said i cringed for the moment but then he gave me a little wink and sewing machines but anyway i know that this is an irish operating in other words it was written by irish

composer named bob and i was in ireland and in england they're all summer to do this robert got very interested in the folk songs and i brought home a couple of irish folk songs of british folk songs now they're great fun to do everywhere i do them on campuses when it is that the colleges i find a golden yellow light joy and we would like to start out with a song which predates the revolution and it's called the night new moon it's an honor

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eighteen months which includes of course the famous laughing song aria which it trying to include all my concerts themselves become a trademark of mine i usually do it as the last number in the concert as i did in hershey it's in english the translation however it was written in germany in german and i do it in english translation of thing that he used it's funny if not just a little bit naughty and i find that the audience is enjoyed tremendously and out it's going to become identified with me it's as i said my trademark i like to show you some of the things that i like to identify with and they're in i can't even hear a leg up and his cabinet are some off the momentous of my career

i had done this doubly statue made i would like to show it to you because i think it's really a work of art there aren't too many people who do opera singers in porcelain in the costume this is again the barber of seville i think it captures especially here around the waist and with the fan the very essence simple chore i do many concerts as you know but they're the concerts the idea that israel two years ago i think are well they're the happiest memories i have ever had on any cuts that i've ever done i went to israel to saying only the israeli philharmonic in may nineteen

sixty seven home i was invited and i sang three for three weeks with the symphony towards the end of that month the israeli war broke out we were there for the buildup in fact all we took a trip from jerusalem to tel aviv and on the road if one looked from side to side in through the trees there were thousands of soldiers were ready for the word to go and this is one of the reasons i guess they won because they were it appeared in any case the israeli government asked me to stay after i finished my concerts with the symphony and then asked if i would sing for the troops the american embassy was asking all americans to leave but i really felt that i should stay i want to stay it was my commitment and i felt very strongly about it

so i said i would and one saturday afternoon very late in the afternoon very handsome israeli soldier came to our hotel and we went with him across the street to a very small field and got into a tiny plane five seater and i said are we going off and he just kind of nodded but when we assumed up he turned south and i could going along the water switch which way we're going and he said well if we get any closer to egypt we'd be speaking egyptian and so we were going to the negev desert turned out i didn't know it at the time but we went without lights and we came in very quickly lights came on for a second just first two and then they are out under the stars i sang for forty five

thousand is really aaron and women it was on a little platform in the main were all arranged down sitting cross legged on the ground and i sang everything i knew why single with two hours and i always sing arias and popular thing everything and as i was leaving the men all crowded around and one of them said was putin's peugeot didn't sing my favorite song and i thought oh i can imagine what it left out and so what is your favorite song chicago which of the leash he sees that he had relatives in chicago as they were it was really a great experience i got down to my sex act with them while i sang on for another number i invited couple them up and now they gave me for doing that the israeli government gave me a few things i'm really very proud i am

of course i always treasure for the rest of my life this metal which shows the city of jerusalem on top and the mountain leading to it also the orchestra gave me this medal which shows the two famous conductors of the symphony this is toscanini and the other one is hoffman i believe yes what was the original founder over three years ago this is one sided it was like to show you the other side of it which is i think equally as beautiful thirty years the symphony is in existence and also last but not least the man i sang four gave me is there

a line the only foreigner entitled to wear disparity are also thinking the wings which i now have on here but i do wear on chest whenever i wear this is kind of cute but like if you're going to find a new books but anyway i wear the great deal privately say that or at

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pope strangely and not one of the most successful numbers in the hall closet i felt was the approaching the aria own your body no copper from john ydstie and that i didn't think that the audience you know it would really appreciate and they didn't so there was another surprise you could never tell that i think is one of the great pleasures of live audience and i think that was one of the highlights also the spanish group i felt was one of the highlights of the culture and the mozart the second number of the late night had enough and don giovanni you're in a concert we tried to build and build to finish and i'm always so happy

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