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Weill - Street Scene | Naxos - Nostalgia 8120885

Weill - Street Scene

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Label: Naxos - Nostalgia

Cat No: 8120885

Barcode: 0636943288528

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Vocal/Choral

Release Date: 29th June 2009

Contents

Artists

Dorothy Sarnoff
Norman Atkins
Polyna Stoska
Brian Sullivan
Ferdinand Hilt
Chris Ortiz
Maria Martino
Alice Lee
Catherine Helgenberg
Henry Timmerman

Conductor

Izler Solomon

Works

Weill, Kurt

Street Scene

Artists

Dorothy Sarnoff
Norman Atkins
Polyna Stoska
Brian Sullivan
Ferdinand Hilt
Chris Ortiz
Maria Martino
Alice Lee
Catherine Helgenberg
Henry Timmerman

Conductor

Izler Solomon

About

Street Scene is a Broadway musical or, more precisely, an ‘American opera"’ by Kurt Weill, based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning play of the same name by Elmer Rice. For his work on Street Scene, Weill received the first Tony Award for Best Original Score.

The play takes place on the doorstep of a tenement on the East Side of Manhattan on two brutally hot days in 1946. The story focuses on two plot-lines: the romance between Rose Maurrant and her neighbour Sam Kaplan; and on the extra-marital affair of Rose's mother, Anna, which is eventually discovered by Rose's irritable father, Frank. The show portrays the ordinary romances, squabbles and gossips of the neighbours, as the mounting tensions involving the Maurrant family eventually build into a tragedy of epic proportions.

Concert Performance at the Hollywood Bowl, 1949. Recorded for Overseas Broadcast by Armed Forces Radio.

Cast:
- Dorothy Sarnoff (Rose Maurrant)
- Norman Atkins (Frank Maurrant)
- Polyna Stoska (Anna Maurrant)
- Brian Sullivan (Sam Kaplan)
- Ferdinand Hilt (Henry Davis)
- Chris Ortiz (David Buchanan)
- Maria Martino, Alice Lee, Catherine Helgenberg (Greta Fiorentino, Emma Jones, Olga Olsen)
- Henry Timmerman (Lippo Fiorentino)

NB Performers were specially assembled for this one concert and casting in some instances is uncertain but given according to best knowledge.

Lyrics by Langston Hughes.

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