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Alexander Zhurbin - Orpheus and Eurydice (1977)

2011-08-22T18:45:42Z

Alexander Zhurbin - Orpheus and Eurydice (A Rock Opera)

Александр Журбин - Орфей и Эвридика 1977

CD1
1. Увертюра (Overture) 	1:39
2. Орфей полюбил Эвридику (Orpheus Falling in Love with  Eurydice) 	1:11 
3. Первый дуэт Орфея и Эвридики и песня Орфея ("Когда поет Орфей") / First Duet of Orpheus, and Euridice and Orpheus Song
 (" When Orpheus Sings ... ") 	5:40 
4. Хор вестников ("Близится, близится...") Chorus of Bulletins ("Approaches, Approaches") 	1:39 
5. Сцена прощания  (Scene of Farewell) 	1:27 
6. Ария Эвридики ("Песня о капле росы")Aria of Eurydice (Song about a Drop of Dew) 	3:45		play
7. Напутствие Эвридики  (Parting Word of Euridice) 	0:38 
8. Первый зонг ("Оглянись") The First Zong ("Look Back") 	2:19
9. Интерлюдия (Interlude) 	1:38 
10. Певцы и Фортуна (Singers and Fate) 	4:23 
11. Состязание певцов  (Competition of Singers) 	4:28 
12. Выступление Орфея  (Appearance of Orpheus) 	3:17
13. Сцена прославления  (Scene of Glorification) 	4:36
14. Явление Фортуны ("Звал меня, звал меня, мой певец...") / Phenomenon of Fate (" Called Me, Called Me, My Singer... ") 	3:06 
15. Песня Харона ("Еще один юнец встречает в сны...") /Song of Haron (" One More Youth Meets Springs... ") 	3:00 
16. Встречай, Эвридика  (Meet, Euridice) 	1:06

CD2
1. Первое возвращение Орфея  (First Returning ?f Orpheus) 	4:45 
2. Второй зонг ("Прости нас, Эвридика...") /The Second Zong (" Euridice, Forgive Us... ") 	2:01
3. Интерлюдия ("Буря над озером") и песня Эвридики ("Орфей, я в лицо ее знаю...") /Interlude (The Storm Above the Lake) 	6:02
4. Дуэт Эвридики и Харона /Song of Eurydice ("Orpheus , I Know Her In Face? "), and Duo Eurydice And Haronaron 	2:01 
5. Сцена опьянения  (Scene of Intoxication) 	4:20
6. Ария Фортуны ("Все несчастливцы как один...")/Aria of Fate (" All Luckless as One... ") 	2:50
7. Сцена Орфея и Харона и песня Харона  /(Scene of Orpheus and Haron, and Song of Haron) 	8:34
8. Ария Орфея ("Потерял я Эвридику...") /Aria of Orpheus (" I Have Lost  Eurydice ... ") 	3:54 	                    play
9. Напутствие Фортуны  /(Parting Word of Fate) 	1:40 
10. Третий зонг ("Маятник") /The Third Zong ("Pendulum") 	2:30 
11. В ожидании Орфея  /(In Expectation of Orpheus) 	1:28 
12. Встречай, Эвридика  (Meet, Euridice) 	0:43 
13. Сцена второго возвращения Орфея  /(Scene of Second Returning of Orpheus) 	3:14 
14. Хор вестников ("Близится, близится...") /Chorus of Bulletins (" Approaches, Approaches... ") 	2:06 
15. Исчезновение Эвридики  (Disappearance of Euridice) 	1:36 
16. Финал (Final) 	3:49

Performer:
Poyuschiye Guitary (The Singing Guitars)
Albert Assadulin, Orpheus
Irina Ponarovskaya, Eurydice
Olga Levitskaya, Fortune
Bogdan Vivcharovsky, Charon
V. Tsakadze, V. Lazarenko, A. Fyodorov, Competition Singers

Исполнители:
- Альберт Асадуллин - Орфей
- Ирина Понаровская - Эвридика
- Богдан Вивчаровский - Харон
- Ольга Левицкая - Фортуна
- Валерий Цакадзе, Александр Федоров, Василий Лазаренко - Певцы
ВИА "Поющие гитары"

Alexander Zhurbin was born in Tashkent and attended the Special Music School and Tashkent Conservatory as well as the Moscow Gnesin Institute where he studied with Nikolai Peiko and Aram Khachaturian. He did post-graduate studies as a musicologist and completed his Ph.D., studying with Sergei Slonimski. His first big success came with his rock opera Orpheus and Eurydice. Since 1990, the composer and his family have lived in New York City. He has served as composer-in-residence at the 92nd Street Y and a professor at Touro College. In 1992 he founded the Russian-American Theater "Wandering Stars," which has become a major cultural force inside the Russian-speaking community. Since its first appearance in 1975, Zhurbin's rock opera Orpheus and Eurydice has been the focus of enormous interest and attention. The reaction from the Soviet Communist Press and the official propaganda "apparatchiks" was negative and even scandalous. Somehow the work managed to survive all this - mostly because general audiences disregarded the "directives" from the Central Committee.

There is an old Russian proverb which goes "people vote with their feet," which means the audience either comes to the performance or it doesn't. In the case of Orpheus the response was incredible. In some cities it was performed twice in one day, two weeks in a row at the sports arena with six to seven thousand tickets sold at every performance. One group gave it 2500 performances all over the Soviet Union and Europe. This two CD set is a remastering of the original cast album made in 1977 by the St. Petersburg Theater Rock Opera Group. About the Two Portraits, the composer writes: "My love for the great poetry of the two Russian poets from the first half of the 20th century - Marina Tsvetayeva and Velemir Khlebnikov - inspired me to write this music in an attempt to create some kind of "Musical Portraits." This set should have broad appeal to a wide group of listeners. It is really a "crossover" album. --- arkivmusic.com

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Hair – The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical (1969)

2011-08-12T19:16:25Z

Hair – The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical (1969)


01. Aquarius (vocals - Ronald Dyson and Company) - 2:50					play 	
02. Donna / Hashish (vocals - Gerome Ragni and Company) - 2:45 	
03. Sodomy (vocals - Steve Curry and Company) - 0:51 	
04. Colored Spade (vocals - Lamont Washington and Company) - 1:10 	
05. Manchester England (vocals - James Rado and Company) - 1:18 	
06. I'm Black (vocals - Lamont Washington, Steve Curry, Gerome Ragni and James Rado) / Ain't Got No (vocals - Steve Curry, Lamont Washington,
 Melba Moore and Company) - 1:10 
07. Air (vocals - Sally Eaton, Shelley Plimpton, Melba Moore and Company) - 1:25 	
08. Initials (vocals - Company) - 0:53 	
09. I Got Life (vocals - James Rado and Company) - 2:16 	
10. Hair (vocals - James Rado, Gerome Ragni and Company) - 2:55 	
11. My Conviction (vocals - Jonathan Kramer) - 1:36 	
12. Don't Put It Down (vocals - Gerome Ragni and Steve Curry) - 2:00 	
13. Frank Mills (vocals - Shelley Plimpton) - 2:05 	
14. Be-In (vocals - Company) - 3:00 	
15. Where Do I Go? (vocals - James Rado and Company) - 2:38 	
16. Black Boys (vocals - Diane Keaton, Suzannah Norstrand and Natalie Mosco) / White Boys (vocals - Melba Moore, Lorrie Davis
 and Emmaretta Marks) - 3:35 	
17. Easy To Be Hard (vocals - Lynn Kellogg) - 2:33 	
18. Walking In Space (vocals - Company) - 4:48 	
19. Abie Baby (vocals - Lamont Washington, Ronald Dyson, Donnie Burks and Lorrie Davis) - 2:43 	
20. Three-Five-Zero-Zero (vocals - Company) / What A Piece Of Work Is Man (vocals - Ronald Dyson and Walter Harris) - 4:43 	
21. Good Morning Starshine (vocals - Lynn Kellogg, Melba Moore, James Rado and Gerome Ragni) - 2:30			play 	
22. The Flesh Failures (Let The Sunshine In) (vocals - James Rado, Lynn Kellogg, Melba Moore and Company) - 3:34

Written by Galt MacDermot (music), Gerome Ragni (lyrics), James Rado (James Radomski) (lyrics).

Personnel:
Bass - Jimmy Lewis
Drums - Idris Muhammad
Guitar - Alan Fontaine, Steve Gillette
Percussion - Warren Chaisson
Electric piano - Galt MacDermot
Trumpet - Donald Leight, Eddy Williams
Woodwind - Zane Paul 
Company (Hair Original Broadway Cast): Diane Keaton, Donnie Burks, Emmaretta Marks, Gerome Ragni, James Rado, Jonathan Kramer,
 Lamont Washington, Lorrie Davis, Lynn Kellogg, Natalie Mosco, Ronald Dyson, Sally Eaton, Shelley Plimpton, Steve Curry, Suzannah Norstrand,
 Walter Harris - vocals
Producer - Andy Wiswell

Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical is a rock musical with a book and lyrics by James Rado and Gerome Ragni and music by Galt MacDermot. A product of the hippie counter-culture and sexual revolution of the 1960s, several of its songs became anthems of the anti-Vietnam War peace movement. The musical's profanity, its depiction of the use of illegal drugs, its treatment of sexuality, its irreverence for the American flag, and its nude scene caused much comment and controversy. The musical broke new ground in musical theatre by defining the genre of "rock musical", using a racially integrated cast, and inviting the audience onstage for a "Be-In" finale.

Hair tells the story of the "tribe", a group of politically active, long-haired hippies of the "Age of Aquarius" living a bohemian life in New York City and fighting against conscription into the Vietnam War. Claude, his good friend Berger, their roommate Sheila and their friends struggle to balance their young lives, loves and the sexual revolution with their rebellion against the war and their conservative parents and society. Ultimately, Claude must decide whether to resist the draft as his friends have done, or to succumb to the pressures of his parents (and conservative America) to serve in Vietnam, compromising his pacifistic principles and risking his life.

After an Off-Broadway debut in October 1967 at Joseph Papp's Public Theater and a subsequent run in a midtown discothèque space, the show opened on Broadway in April 1968 and ran for 1,750 performances. Simultaneous productions in cities across the United States and Europe followed shortly thereafter, including a successful London production, which ran for 1,997 performances. Since then, numerous productions have been staged around the world, spawning dozens of recordings of the musical, including the million-selling original Broadway cast recording. Some of the songs from its score became Top 10 hits, and a feature film adaptation was released in 1979. A Broadway revival opened on March 31, 2009, earning strong reviews and winning the Tony Award and Drama Desk Award for best revival of a musical. In 2008, Time magazine wrote, "Today Hair seems, if anything, more daring than ever."

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The Kinks – Soap Opera (1975)

2011-08-15T14:13:29Z

The Kinks – Soap Opera (1975)


01. Everybody's A Star (Starmaker) – 2:57
02. Ordinary People – 3:49
03. Rush Hour Blues – 4:26
04. Nine To Five – 1:48
05. When Work Is Over – 2:05
06. Have Another Drink – 2:41			play
07. Underneath The Neon Sign – 3:53
08. Holiday Romance – 3:10
09. You Make It All Worthwhile – 3:49	play
10. Ducks On The Wall – 3:20
11. A Face In The Crowd – 2:17	
12. You Can't Stop The Music – 3:12
Bonuses:
13. Everybody's A Star (Starmaker) (mono mix) – 2:54
14. Ordinary People (live) – 3:44
15. You Make It All Worthwhile (live) – 4:17
16. Underneath The Neon Sign (live) – 4:05

All songs by Ray Davies

Personnel:
- Raymond Douglas (Ray) Davies - rhythm guitar, lead vocals
- David Russell Gordon (Dave) Davies - lead guitar, Vocals
- Michael Charles (Mick) Avory - drums, percussion
- John Dalton - bass, vocals 
- John Gosling - keyboards 
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- John Beecham - trombone, horn
- Laurie Brown - trumpet, horn
- Alan Holmes - horn, saxophone
- Lyndsey Moore, June Ritchie, Shirley Roden, Pamela Travis - backing vocals

Soap Opera or The Kinks Present A Soap Opera is a 1975 concept album by The Kinks.

It tells the story of a musician named Starmaker who changes places with an "ordinary man" named Norman in order to better understand life. The album is the third concept album in the band's "theatrical period". Starmaker goes to bed with Norman's wife Andrea and then goes to work the next day, getting caught in the rush hour. He works 9 to 5, then goes down to the bar for a few drinks before making his way home. He then is greeted by Andrea whom he tells is "making it all worthwhile". By this point Starmaker has lost his grip on reality, he doesn't know who he is anymore. In the end he settles down with Andrea, accepting that he is now just "a face in the crowd". The album finishes by saying that although rock stars may fade, their music lives on.

The Starmaker is a parallel exagerration of Ray Davies, he would often use his name in the stage version on Soap Opera and perform previous top Kinks songs as examples of his work as a star to explain that he is not Norman.

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