
Baldwin and Hampson - No Menthol For You!
Clip: Season 34 | 13m 55s
Why did baritone Thomas Hampson tell Alec Baldwin to stop eating big bowls of menthol?
NY Philharmonic New Year's Eve 2009: Why did baritone Thomas Hampson tell Alec Baldwin to stop eating big bowls of menthol? Sitting down in Hampson's apartment, two artists at the top of their professions talk about Cole Porter, Aaron Copland, and the obligations of a performer to his audience.
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Live From Lincoln Center is made possible with support from the Family of Robert Wood Johnson III, the Audrey and Martin Gruss Foundation, The Robert and Renée Belfer Family Foundation, Mercedes T. Bass, and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Baldwin and Hampson - No Menthol For You!
Clip: Season 34 | 13m 55s
NY Philharmonic New Year's Eve 2009: Why did baritone Thomas Hampson tell Alec Baldwin to stop eating big bowls of menthol? Sitting down in Hampson's apartment, two artists at the top of their professions talk about Cole Porter, Aaron Copland, and the obligations of a performer to his audience.
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