Tesori, Jeanine (1961-) - Blue : Roderick Cox / Washington National Opera, Kellogg, B.Hunter, Crouch, etc (2021 Stereo)(2SACD)(Hybrid) - Import Digipak 2 SACD Hybrid

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Tesori, Jeanine (1961-)

Description:

Winner of the "Best New Opera" award! Janine Tesori's moving music is full of beauty and eloquence. SACD hybrid recording of "Blue," a new American opera about racism. Washington National Opera's new recording of Blue, a contemporary opera with a libretto by Tazewell Thompson and music by Janine Tesori, focuses on the theme of racism in America today. Blue" tells the tragic story of an African American police officer whose son was killed by a fellow officer during a racial protest. Strongly resonating with the Black Lives Matter movement, this remarkable work realistically depicts the current state of African American family life on the operatic stage, and was awarded the Best New Opera Award by the North American Music Critics Association in 2020, while the Financial Times, a British business newspaper, called it "an Hailed as "an extremely remarkable new opera," it was session recorded at the John F. Kennedy Center in 2021. The music was written by Janine Tesori, a composer active in various aspects of the current American music scene, including the music for the film "The Last First Love" starring Richard Gere. The music, full of beauty and eloquence, underscores the importance of the work's theme. Conductor Roderick Cox is an African-American conductor who serves as Associate Conductor of the Minnesota Orchestra.Europe's first black and ethnic minority Chineke! The first black and minority orchestra in Europe! *No Japanese obi will be attached. King International

Tracklisting:

1.Blue~Prologue (instrumental)
2.Blue~Act I: Scene 1: - Urgent! - Drop ev'rything!
3.Blue~Act I: Scene 1: I was in the heyday of being in love
4.Blue~Act I: Scene 1: Damn, girl!
5.Blue~Act I: Scene 1: You married a cop?
6.Blue~Act I: Scene 1: I love him
7.Blue~Act I: Scene 1: What about your obsession?
8.Blue~Act I: Scene 1: I'm gonna strap my baby on my back
9.Blue~Act I: Scene 1: You havin' a what?
10.Blue~Act I: Scene 1: - Forgive our sistah. - She knows not what she do
11.Blue~Act I: Scene 1: Birth that baby boy to term
12.Blue~Act I: Scene 1: Ha! Ha, ha, ha!
13.Blue~Act I: Scene 1: I'm having this boy. I'm keeping this boy close
14.Blue~Act I: Scene 1: We wish on ev'rything you can wish on
15.Blue~Act I: Scene 1: Scrape the wax off your wings
16.Blue~Act I: Scene 1: Transition to Scene 2 (Instrumental)
17.Blue~Act I: Scene 2: How you doin', baby?
18.Blue~Act I: Scene 2: I'm somebody's mother
19.Blue~Act I: Scene 2: Hello...Mom!
20.Blue~Act I: Scene 2: Cup your hand under his head and neck
21.Blue~Act I: Scene 2: Hello...Hello, My son
22.Blue~Act I: Scene 3: Go, Go, Go!
23.Blue~Act I: Scene 3: - Halftime! - We're all yours, buddy
24.Blue~Act I: Scene 3: How do you feel?
25.Blue~Act I: Scene 3: Welcome to the daddy club!
26.Blue~Act I: Scene 3: How did you produce a son?
27.Blue~Act I: Scene 3: I've got a baby boy
28.Blue~Act I: Scene 3: Here's a toast
29.Blue~Act I: Scene 4: Introduction (instrumental)
30.Blue~Act I: Scene 4: You not getting off that easy
31.Blue~Act I: Scene 4: Yes, sir! Got my own private warden
32.Blue~Act I: Scene 4: Moved up here so you could spread out and be by yourself
33.Blue~Act I: Scene 4: No! New York is the richest city in the world
34.Blue~Act I: Scene 4: Stat Stat Statue of Liberty
35.Blue~Act I: Scene 4: The world done change