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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0803607086626 Label: P.S. Classics Manufacturer: P.S. Classics Number Of Discs: 3 Publisher: P.S. Classics Release Date: August 26, 2008 Sales Rank: 59115 Studio: P.S. Classics
Disc 1:- Act 1. The Last Time There Was Rain
- Act 1. I Keep My Nose Clean / Where's Ya' Headin'?
- Act 1. So Long, Savior / I Baptized You / A Naked Tree a-Wastin' in the Sun
- Act 1. Gone / Not My Fault
- Act 1. Who Are You Cleanin' For?
- Act 1. Promise Me, Tommy
- Act 1. You Can't Keep a Joad in Jail / Not My Fault
- Act 1. Good Machine
- Act 1. Tricky Old Devil
- Act 1. Us
- Act 1. Soothing Syrup
- Act 1. The Plenty Road / Okies / Need Some Gas, Mister / Okies/The Plenty Road
- Act 1. Handbills
- Act 1. I Can't Tell You
- Act 1. We'll Find Work
- Act 1. The Zephyr / One Star
- Act 1. He Don't Understand
- Act 1. A Word for This Old Man
- Act 1. Finale. Us (Reprise)
Disc 2:- Act 2. Truck Drivers
- Act 2. Dry Blue Night / We Can Be Quiet / Rest Peaceful, Mama / Septet. Dry Blue Night
- Act 2. Inspection Station
- Act 2. Like They Promised
- Act 2. My Plum Tree / No Work Here
- Act 2. The Fire in the Orchard / Ants on the Highway
- Act 2. Beg Your Pardon, Ma'am / Nice, Neighborly Place We Found Here / Hooverville? Where's Hooverv
- Act 2. Hooverville's Anywhere
- Act 2. No One Is Goin'
- Act 2. Handbills / Into the Back, Tom
- Act 2. I Can Be a Help
- Act 2. Simple Child
Disc 3:- Act 3. People Again / Se Ya' at the Hoedown, Ladies!
- Act 3. Square Dance
- Act 3. Hold on, Deputy / Handbills (Reprise)
- Act 3. Fried Dough
- Act 3. Join the Line / Damn! Them Peaches
- Act 3. A Step Up the Ladder
- Act 3. Dry Blue Night/Evening Stroll
- Act 3. Things Turn Around / A Word for You, Old Friend
- Act 3. Dios Te Salve
- Act 3. That You, Ma? / Promise Me, Tommy (Reprise)
- Act 3. I'll Be There
- Act 3. The Day the Rain Began
- Act 3. We Couldn't Save It
- Act 3. Little Dead Moses
- Act 3. Barn Road... Night / Gone (Reprise)
- Act 3. You Own This Barn?
- Act 3. Take It, Mister / One Star (Reprise)
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Customer Reviews Average Rating:  Rating: - Critics Weight In on "The Grapes Of Wrath" Gordon, who first made his name in the theatre and as a composer of Broadway-style songs, fills his score with beautifully turned genre pieces, often harking back to American popular music of the twenties and thirties: Gershwinesque song-and-dance numbers, a few sweetly soaring love songs in the manner of Jerome Kern, banjo-twanging ballads, saxed-up jazz choruses, even a barbershop quartet. You couldn't ask for a more comfortably appointed evening of vintage musicalAmericana ... Read More
Rating: - Stephen Eddin's All Music Guide Review It's a pleasure to report that Ricky Ian Gordon's The Grapes of Wrath deserves a place in the extremely tiny pantheon of successful American operas based on classic American novels. (Porgy and Bess, the granddaddy of American opera, and in a class by itself, is based on a minor novel, Dubose Heyward's Porgy, which would undoubtedly be forgotten today if it were not for the opera.) Gordon is obviously a theatre composer -- he knows how to shape an ensemble, a scene, an act, to create a compelling large ... Read More
Rating: - Alan Rich on the CD
Sept. 8 (Bloomberg) -- Composer Ricky Ian Gordon's fluent, powerful setting of a great -- maybe the greatest -- American novel, John Steinbeck's ``The Grapes of Wrath,'' is now available on a vivid, three-CD box set from PS Classics. The opera already has drawn critical raves and silenced many of the naysayers who bemoan the lack of another great American opera of the stature of ``Porgy and Bess.''
First produced by the Minnesota Opera with a young, eager and mostly unknown ... Read More
Rating: - Pleasantly Surprised The recording is great! I was expecting the music to be super modern sounding but it's got a great colloquial feel to it with banjo and harmonica. There are even some jazzy parts. The singers are fantastic and the orchestra is fabulous!
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