Street Scene Vocal Score - Kurt Weill
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Street Scene is a Broadway musical or, more precisely, an 'American opera' by Kurt Weill (music), Langston Hughes (lyrics), and Elmer Rice (book). Written in 1946 and premiered in Philadelphia that year, Street Scene is based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning play of the same name by Rice. It was Weill who referred to the piece as an 'American opera' (he also called it a 'Broadway opera'), intending it as a synthesis of European traditional opera and American musical theater. He received the first Tony Award for Best Original Score for his work, after the Broadway premiere in 1947. Yet Street Scene has never been revived on Broadway; it is fairly regularly produced by opera companies.
Musically and culturally, even dramatically, the work inhabits the midground between Weill's Threepenny Opera (1928) and Bernstein's West Side Story (1957). The score contains operatic arias and ensembles, some of them, such as Anna Maurrant's 'Somehow I Never Could Believe' and Frank Maurrant's 'Let Things Be Like They Always Was,' with links and references to the style of Giacomo Puccini. It also has jazz and blues influences, in 'I Got a Marble and a Star' and 'Lonely House.' Some of the more Broadway-style musical numbers are 'Wrapped In a Ribbon and Tied In a Bow', 'Wouldn't You Like To Be On Broadway?' and 'Moon-faced, Starry-eyed,' an extended song-and-dance sequence.
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- Ain't It Awful, The Heat?
- A Boy Like You (from the Musical Production STREET SCENE)
- Catch Me If You Can
- Don't Forget The Lilac Bush (from the Musical Production STREET SCENE)
- Get A Load Of That (K.Weill)
- I Got A Marble And A Star
- I Loved Her Too (from the Musical Production STREET SCENE)
- Ice Cream Sextet (Weill K)
- Let Things Be Like They Always Was (from STREET SCENE)
- Lonely House (from the Musical Production STREET SCENE)
- Lullaby (from THE CONSUL)
- Moon-Faced, Starry-Eyed (from the Musical Production STREET SCENE)
- Remember That I Care (from the Musical Production STREET SCENE)
- Somehow I Never Could Believe
- There'll Be Trouble (K.Weill)
- We'll Go Away Together (from the Musical Production STREET SCENE)
- What Good Would The Moon Be? (from the Musical Production STREET SCENE)
- When A Woman Has A Baby
- Woman Who Lived Up There, The
- Wouldn't You Like To Be On Broadway (from the Musical Production STREET SCENE)
- Wrapped In A Ribbon & Tied-Bow
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073999124057
9780881880526
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