Hagen, D.: Shining Brow [Opera]

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Shining Brow (more info)
Performed by: Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra
Composed by: Daron Aric Hagen Paul Muldoon
Conducted by: JoAnn Falletta
Brenda Harris, soprano
Robert Frankenberry, tenor
Elaine Valby, mezzo-soprano
Robert Orth, baritone
James Demler, baritone
Elem Eley, baritone
Matthew Curran, bass-baritone
Gilda Lyons, soprano
Jennifer Lynn Reckamp, soprano
Tony Barton, tenor
Deborah Fleischer, soprano
Eric Fleischer, tenor
Recording date: 4-5 November 2006


1.   Prologue: So much so, that even now I flinch… (Sullivan, Waiter) - 04:38
2.   Prologue: So the poetry of architecture… (Draftsmen) - 01:04
3.   Act I Scene 1: Some are destined to stand… (Wright, Mamah, Edwin, Draftsmen) - 05:11
4.   Act I Scene 1: The music, so… the music of architecture… (Draftsmen) - 01:29
5.   Act I Scene 1: Arietta: And her scent, was it musk? (Wright) - 03:23
6.   Act I Scene 1: Aria: If not for me, then for the children's sake… (Catherine, Wright) - 04:46
7.   Act I Scene 1: Aria: Each room opens into the next, Catherine… (Wright, Sullivan) - 04:47
8.   Act I Scene 1: Interlude: Sullivan Variations - 02:23
9.   Act I Scene 1: When I woke up this morning… (Workmen) - 03:17
10.   Act I Scene 2: Far be it from me to suggest… (Women, Workmen) - 02:55
11.   Act I Scene 2: Arietta: Three long days and three long nights… (Edwin, Workmen) - 02:25
12.   Act I Scene 2: Aria: The truth is that my mouth is full of nails (Edwin) - 03:20
13.   Act I Scene 2: They say the soul weighs about the same as… (Workmen, Mamah, Wright) - 02:59
14.   Act I Scene 2: Melodrama: Be it mud hut, mansion or mosque… (Mamah, Wright, Edwin) - 01:34
15.   Act I Scene 2: Trio: For three long months I've tried to ease… (Mamah, Wright, Edwin) - 04:05
16.   Act I Scene 2: Interlude: She sweeps us off our feet …, "Hymn to Nature" (Chorus) - 01:59
17.   Act I Scene 3: …back into earth and air (Mamah, Chorus) - 00:45
18.   Act I Scene 3: Frank, how much longer must I endure…? (Mamah) - 14:49

Shining Brow (more info)
Performed by: Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra
Composed by: Daron Aric Hagen Paul Muldoon
Conducted by: JoAnn Falletta
Brenda Harris, soprano
Robert Frankenberry, tenor
Elaine Valby, mezzo-soprano
Robert Orth, baritone
James Demler, baritone
Elem Eley, baritone
Matthew Curran, bass-baritone
Gilda Lyons, soprano
Jennifer Lynn Reckamp, soprano
Tony Barton, tenor
Deborah Fleischer, soprano
Eric Fleischer, tenor
Recording date: 4-5 November 2006


1.   Act II: Prelude - 01:32
2.   Act II: So much, so much, so much, so much, so… (Townspeople, Reporters, Guests) - 01:50
3.   Act II: Sextet: With a tally ho and view halloo… (Reporters, Townswomen) - 03:10
4.   Act II: Aria: Ladies and Gentlemen… (Wright, Chorus) - 09:01
5.   Act II: Questions: Mister Wright! (Reporters, Townswomen) - 00:49
6.   Act II: Dialogue: Together, Mamah, we will take… (Wright, Mamah, Chorus) - 02:26
7.   Act II: Sextet: Just my luck to end up here… (Reporters, Wright, Mamah) - 01:55
8.   Act II: Interlude: For when all's said and done, we'd like to know… (Barbershop Quartet) - 02:20
9.   Act II: Canape Variations: As the guests arrive at Taliesin… (Company) - 09:12
10.   Act II: Oration: I am the birch stripped of its bark (Chef) - 01:07
11.   Act II: Interlude: The Fire - 02:29
12.   Act II: Scene: Frank. Lieber Meister… (Wright, Sullivan) - 04:55
13.   Act II: Duet: For ten long years I’ve tried to heal… (Wright, Sullivan) - 04:08
14.   Act II: Eddie? Why so crestfallen? So forlorn? (Wright, Edwin, Sullivan) - 01:52
15.   Act II: Arietta: I cry out from the Slough of Despond… (Sullivan) - 02:10
16.   Act II: Out of the depths we heard them cry again… (Townspeople, Wright) - 02:23
17.   Act II: For ten long hours they were trapped… (Wright, Edwin) - 05:47
18.   Act II: Out of the depths we heard them cry again… (Townpeople, Wright) - 01:43
19.   Act II: Arietta: Not musk, cedar perhaps… (Wright) - 02:03
20.   Act II: Aria: He's found! We've found the chef! (The Maid) - 02:17
21.   Act II: Not maple. Pine; the scent of a plain pine box… (Wright, Chorus) - 02:35
22.   Act II: Aria: I think of the balsam fir… (Wright) - 06:20

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