Elegies - A Song Cycle (2003 Original Off-Broadway Cast)
Elegies - A Song Cycle (2003 Original Off-Broadway Cast)
又名: 挽歌
表演者: Christian Borle/Betty Buckley/Carolee Carmello/Keith Byron Kirk/Michael Rupert
专辑类型: Cast Recording
介质: CD
发行时间: 2003-06-24
唱片数: 1
出版者: Original Cast
条形码: 0030206218923
专辑简介
Songwriter William Finn has always had an idiosyncratic approach to his work, bordering on autobiography while creating projects for the musical theater. With 1998's A New Brain, he began to cross that border, writing a show that told of an incident in his own life, only thinly veiled. 2001's Infinite Joy: The Songs of William Finn, in which he participated with other singers, often dispensed with that veil, and Elegies: A Song Cycle, which, like most of his works, was mounted by the Playwrights Horizons theater company, starting March 24, 2003, at the off-Broadway Mitzi Newhouse Theater at Lincoln Center in New York City, never pretends to be anything other than a series of songs concerning Finn himself, his friends, his relatives, and even his pets. Gay, Jewish, and urban, Finn has seen many associates succumb to AIDS and, like any middle-aged person, has experienced the deaths of other loved ones as well, and Elegies, magnificently sung by a five-person cast including Broadway star Betty Buckley and Michael Rupert (who was featured in the earlier Finn show March of the Falsettos), is a musical tribute to those departed. Finn doesn't hesitate to name them, from theatrical producer Joseph Papp (head of the New York Shakespeare Festival/Public Theater, which also mounted Finn shows) to less well-known figures including fellow songwriters and Finn's mother. But despite being so particular, the songs, overflowing with melody and including extremely witty, literate lyrics, are touching even if the listener doesn't know the people involved. And the particular gives way to a more general tone in the final songs, "Goodbye/Boom Boom" and "Looking Up," which inevitably treat the lives lost on September 11, 2001, in the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. The material is never maudlin, however. "The ending's not the story," Keith Byron Kirk declares in "Goodbye," and it's the stories that interest Finn here. ~ William Ruhlmann, All Music Guide
曲目
1. Looking Up Quintet
2. Mister Choi & Madame G - Christian Borle, Carolee Carmello, Keith Byron Kirk
3. Mark's All-Male Thanksgiving - Michael Rupert
4. Only One - Betty Buckley
5. Joe Papp - Keith Byron Kirk
6. Peggy Hewitt & Mysty del Giorno - Carolee Carmello
7. Passover - Carolee Carmello
8. Infinite Joy - Betty Buckley
9. Ballad of Jack Eric Williams (And Other 3-Named Composers) - Michael Rupert
10. Monica & Mark - Christian Borle, Keith Byron Kirk, Michael Rupert
11. Anytime (I Am There) - Carolee Carmello
12. My Dogs - Christian Borle
13. Venice - Michael Rupert
14. 14 Dwight Ave., Natick, Massachusetts - Christian Borle, Betty Buckley
15. When the Earth Stopped Turning - Christian Borle
16. Goodbye/Boom Boom - Carolee Carmello, Keith Byron Kirk
17. Looking Up - Betty Buckley
18. Goodbye (Finale)