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...KERN: SHOW BOAT (EMI). The landmark American musical just keeps on rollin' along in a bravura operatic version with Frederica von Stade and Teresa Stratas...
SHOW BOAT (EMI). The classic Mississippi musical jes' keeps rollin' along, here with such stern-wheeling operatic voices as Frederica von Stade and Teresa Stratas. The first recording that is completely faithful to the original Kern-Hammerstein score reveals a raw, powerful, even angry work. And you thought it was "only make-believe...
SHOW BOAT (EMI). The classic Mississippi musical jes' keeps rollin' along, here with such stern-wheeling operatic voices as Frederica von Stade and Teresa Stratas. The first recording that is completely faithful to the original Kern-Hammerstein score reveals a raw, powerful, even angry work. And you thought it was "only make-believe...
...respected. "There are great theater pieces of the teens, '20s and '30s that don't exist in performable form," laments McGlinn. "If a show closed out of town, the scores could be thrown out on the last night. A lot of pre-Oklahoma! Rodgers and Hart, Porter and Kern shows are gone forever. We're trying to reclaim from oblivion all the work of America's greatest writers and composers...
...recording of Jerome Kern' s Show Boat gives the riverboat musical the full operatic treatment. Frederica von Stade and Teresa Stratas provide the star power for the classic score...