Format : Sheet music
Previously available in separate volumes the original 24 Cabaret Songs have been collected together for the first time in this new complete edition. Includes bios notes from the composer and Weinstein's article 'What Is Cabaret Song '.
SKU: HL.1189996
ISBN 9781705192443. UPC: 196288131649.
“Based on the motion picture A Wedding by Robert Altman and John Considine, premiered at Lyric Opera of Chicago. Libretto by Arnold Weinstein and Robert Altman....there is no reason to resist this rarest of creations: a meaningful American comic opera.†-Mark Swed, LA Times.
SKU: HL.354968
ISBN 9781705109557. UPC: 840126937916. 11.0x17.0x0.42 inches.
Subtitled: Nine Madrigals after Giovanni Pascoli. Arnold Weinstein's poem The Miracle is an evocative presentation of an imagined scene from the life of the Renaissance painter Paolo Ucello (1397-1475). The piece not only summons images of a painter and his creations, but also develops an intense dramatic situation involving Ucello and St. Francis of Assisi.“The Miracle”was commissioned by the Rutgers Glee Club, Patrick Gardner, director. World Premiere was on March 4, 2000 at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey. Movements: Madrigals: I. bird, no money, bird; II. joy squeezed into perspective; III. birds, birds, birds; IV. temptation; V. the bawling out; VI. more of the bawling out; VII. the saint gets the point; VIII. the point of Paolo's paint; IX. a good night's rest.
