Bernstein: Wonderful Town {first complete recording)
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LEONARD BERNSTEIN
Bernstein: Wonderful Town {first complete recording)
Rebecca Luker & Ron Raines / Studio Cast conducted by John Owen Edwards
[ Jay Digital / 2 CD Box Set ]
Release Date: Friday 17 May 1996
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Wonderful Town is a 1953 musical with book written by Joseph A. Fields and Jerome Chodorov, lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green, and music by Leonard Bernstein. The musical tells the story of two sisters who aspire to be a writer and actress respectively, seeking success from their basement apartment in New York City's Greenwich Village. It is based on Fields and Chodorov's 1940 play My Sister Eileen, which in turn originated from autobiographical short stories by Ruth McKenney first published in The New Yorker in the late 1930s and later published in book form as My Sister Eileen. Only the last two stories in McKenney's book were used, and they were heavily modified.
Recorded at Abbey Road Studios, London, on September 30, October 1 and 2 1996 and at Clinton Studios, New York on October 10, 11 and 12 1996.
Tracks:
Act One
1 Overture 5:13
2 Christopher Street 6:27
3 Ohio 3:41
4 Conquering The City 4:26
5 100 Easy Ways 3:18
6 What A Waste 4:14
7 Ruth's Stories 6:17
8 A Little Bit In Love 3:10
9 Pass The Football 5:40
10 Conversation Piece 4:27
11 A Quiet Girl 4:47
12 Quiet Ruth 1:50
13 Conga! 5:33
Act Two
1 Entre'Acte 3:47
2 My Darlin' Eileen 4:00
3 Swing! 6:55
4 Ohio (Reprise) 3:04
5 Swing! (Orchestral Reprise) 1:44
6 It's Love 3:04
7 Ballet At The Village Vortex 2:23
8 The Wrong Note Rag 2:34
9 Finale Act Two 1:0910 Exit Music 3:30
Bonus Tracks
11 A Little Bit In Love (Full Version) 2:47
12 Christopher Street (Sans Scenes) 5:55
