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Bright Eyed Joy » Gordon, Ricky Ian

Recording Details

Date: 2001
Type: Audio / Vocal Recording
Language: English
Music: Ricky Ian Gordon (16)
Lyrics: Ricky Ian Gordon (16)
Orchestrations: Bruce Coughlin (36), Ricky Ian Gordon (16)
Conductor: Eric Stern (30)
Producer: Robert Hurwitz (20), Tommy Krasker (65)
Performer: Judy Blazer (30), Ricky Ian Gordon (16), Adam Guettel (14), Darius de Haas (20), Theresa McCarthy (8), Audra McDonald (37), Chris Pedro Trakas, Dawn Upshaw (11)

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Format: CD
Label: Nonesuch 79626-2
Released: 2001-04-24
Barcode: 0075597962628
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Tracks: 1. Heaven
2. Poor Girl's Ruination/The Dream Keeper
3. A Contemporary
4. Run Away
5. When Sue Wears Red
6. Afternoon On a Hill
7. Love Song For Lucinda
8. Wild Swans
9. I'm Open All Night
10. Souvenir
11. New Moon
12. Resume/Wail/Frustration
13. The Red Dress
14. Dream Variations
15. Song For a Dark Girl
16. Daybreak In Alabama
17. Once I Was
18. Joy

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Posted 2007-08-05 20:52:47:
Amazon.com Editoral Review: Along with Michael John LaChiusa and Adam Guettel, Ricky Ian Gordon is one of the Young Turks of New York's musical theater. Like them, Gordon shuns both the accessible pop of a David Yazbek and the bombast of a Frank Wildhorn, preferring instead to write post-Sondheimian art songs. The numbers here (with lyrics by Langston Hughes, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Dorothy Parker, James Agee) span two decades. They are marvelously interpreted by the likes of Audra McDonald, Dawn Upshaw, Darius de Haas, and Judy Blazer. Blazer ambles through "Resumé/Wail/Frustration" with delicious jazz-age wit, while Upshaw once more proves that she's a classical singer with an uncanny flair for the nonclassical repertoire. Note that anyone who's expecting anything resembling a beat is advised to look elsewhere. --Elisabeth Vincentelli

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