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...cycle about love, sin, doubt and transcendence. The music is composed in an utterly personal style that blends pop, gospel and classical influences; the lyrics weave together Greek mythology and Christian hymnody to complex, unsettling effect. Persuasively performed on CD by singers such as Audra McDonald, Mandy Patinkin and Guettel, Myths & Hymns is a major event in American popular song...
Most impressive of all is Adam Guettel, Richard Rodgers' grandson, who is living proof of the power of good genes. Best known for his 1996 musical Floyd Collins, Guettel is a startlingly original songwriter who, judging by the four songs included on Way Back to Paradise, has a straight shot at becoming the next Stephen Sondheim. His expressive range is wide enough to encompass The Allure of Silence, a gentle vignette of unspoken love on a winter evening, and Come to Jesus, a harrowing, near operatic dialogue between a woman about to have an abortion and the devastated lover...
Born. To Mary Rodgers, 33, Richard's composer-daughter (Once Upon a Mattress, Hot Spot), and Henry Guettel, 36, general manager of Lincoln Center's Music Theater: their second son (she has three children by a previous marriage); in Manhattan...
...SUZANNE GUETTEL SUSKIN Kansas City...