A Salute to American Music is a 113-minute live album of music, both classical and popular, performed by Steven Blier, Renée Fleming, Paul Groves, Jerry Hadley, Karen Holvik, Marilyn Horne, Jeff Mattsey, Robert Merrill, Sherrill Milnes, Maureen O'Flynn, Phyllis Pancella, Leontyne Price, Samuel Ramey, Daniel Smith, Frederica von Stade, Tatiana Troyanos, Carol Vaness and Denise Woods with the Collegiate Chorale and members of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra under the direction of James Conlon.

[1] The painting is in the Museum of Modern Art, New York City, to which it was given by Philip Johnson in honour of Alfred H. Barr, Jr.[1] Peter Dickinson reviewed a disc of excerpts from the album in Gramophone in June 1993.

[2] Kurt Weill made the first of his two appearances on the record in the "ecstatic virtuosity" of the Ice Cream Sextet from Street Scene, a work which had lately become more salient after a staging at the English National Opera and the release of cast albums by Decca and TER.

And Stephen Foster's "Ah, may the red rose live always" received one of the concert's most affecting performances from Karen Holvik, accompanied simply by Steven Blier's piano.

The ensemble "Make our garden grow" represented Candide, one of his Chichester Psalms was sung by an "on form" Collegiate Chorale and Jerry Hadley sang "Maria" from West Side Story in a voice that went "a bit over the top intonationally" at the peak of its erotic rhapsodizing.

Ward (1848-1903) Gian Carlo Menotti (1911-2007) Kurt Weill (1900-1950) Virgil Thomson (1896-1989) Charles T. Griffes (1884-1920) Stephen Foster (1826-1864) Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990) Aaron Copland (1900-1990) William Bolcom (b.

1938) Douglas Moore (1893-1969) Marc Blitzstein (1905-1964) George Gershwin (1898-1937) Igor Stravinsky (1892-1971) Marvin David Levy (1932-2015) Samuel Barber (1910-1981) Carlisle Floyd (1926-2021) Samuel Barber Cole Porter (1891-1964) Duke Ellington (1899-1974) Kurt Weill Leonard Bernstein Richard Rodgers (1902-1979) Irving Berlin (1888-1989) Leonard Bernstein In 1992, RCA Victor Red Seal issued the album on CD (catalogue number 09026-61508-2) with a 12-page insert booklet presenting an account of the Richard Tucker Music Foundation, notes on the concert by James Conlon and photographs of Tucker, Conlon, Hadley.