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• Program one: If I could tell you / Firestone (Jussi and Anna-Lisa Bjoerling)
• Princess Pat. Neapolitan love song / Herbert
• Gianni Schicchi. O mio babbino caro / Puccini (Anna-Lisa Bjoerling)
• Faust. Salut demeure chaste et pure / Gounod
• La bohème. O soave fanciulla / Puccini (Jussi and Anna-Lisa Bjoerling) --- In my garden / Firestone (Jussi and Anna-Lisa Bjoerling).

• Program two: If I could tell you / Firestone
• Ah love, but a day / Beach
• Ständchen / Strauss
• I pagliacci. Vesti la giubba / Leoncavallo
• Hungarian dance no. 1 / Brahms (orchestra only)
• Prayer of Thanksgiving / Krenzer
• In my garden / Firestone.

• Program three: If I could tell you / Firestone
• Prayer of Thanksgiving / Krenzer (chorus & orchestra only)
• Was ist Sylvia? / Schubert
• The seasons. Autumn & Winter / Glazunov (orchestra only)
• Carmen. Flower song / Bizet
• Mattinata / Leoncavallo
• The story of a starry night / Tchaikovsky (orchestra only)
• Princess Pat. Neapolitan love song / Herbert
• In my garden / Firestone.

• [Introduction and if I could tell you / I. Firestone]
• Song of songs / Moyers [i.e. Moya]
• Aïda. Celeste Aïda / Verdi
• Princess Pat. Neapolitan love song / Herbert
• [Mattinata / Leoncavallo]
• [Blue tango / Leroy Anderson]
• Medley from The prince of Pilson [i.e. Pilsen] / Luters [i.e. Luders] and The student prince / Romberg
• Carmen. Flower song / Bizet
• America the beautiful
• Around the world in eighty days / Young
• [In my garden / I. Firestone]
• I pagliacci. Vesti la giubba / Leoncavallo
• [Dearly beloved / Jerome Kern]
• Rigoletto. Questa o quella ; La donna è mobile / Verdi.

• v. 1. Introduction -- Opening ; and, If I could tell you / I. Firestone
• Morning / Speaks
• Zueignung / R. Strauss
• Winterstürme wichen dem Wonnemond : from Die Walküre / Wagner
• Spring came back to Vienna / Rutter, Torre, Spielman
• Preislied : from Die Meistersinger / Wagner
• None but the lonely heart / Tchaikovsky
• Slavonic dance : no. 1 / Dvořák [arranged for orchestra]-- Vive l'amour / traditional
• Because / d'Hardelot
• Some enchanted evening : from South Pacific / Rodgers & Hammerstein
• For you alone / Geehl
• Helmsman's song : from Der fliegende Holländer / Wagner
• Closing ; and, In my garden / I. Firestone.

• v. 2. Introduction -- Opening ; and, If I could tell you / I. Firestone
• Ave Maria / Bach-Gounod
• Spring came back to Vienna / Rutter, Torre, Spielman
• Not enough / Dungan
• Vesti la giubba : from I pagliacci / Leoncavallo
• Mit einer primula veris / Grieg
• Eternal life / Dungan
• I love thee / Grieg
• The Danish children's song / Andersen
• In fernen Land : from Lohengrin / Wagner
• Entrance of the guests : from Tannhäuser / Wagner [for orchestra]
• The song's the thing / O'Hara
• Serenade : from The student prince / Romberg
• Prize song : from Die Meistersinger / Wagner
• The song is you : from Music in the air / Kern
• Closing ; and, In my garden / I. Firestone.

Astounding vocal power and stamina, beauty and evenness of tone, accuracy of intonation, perfect legato: these are the qualities which come together in Lauritz Melchior, as in no other tenor before or since. This program devoted to Melchior's appearances on The Voice of Firestone further reveals the tenor as a consummate artist and a thoroughly engaging personality.