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BRIGHT EYED JOY.(Review)
GORDON: Songs [] "BRIGHT EYED JOY" With Upshaw, McDonald, McCarthy, Blazer; de Haas, Guettel, Trakas; Gershon, Ellison, Sperling, Gordon, piano; Orchestra, Stern. Texts. Nonesuch 79626
With the notable exception of Andrew Lloyd Webber, who mined gold from T. S. Eliot's cat poems, most Broadway composers don't turn to celebrated poets for inspiration. So it is perfectly natural to assume that Bright Eyed Joy, an album of songs by composer Ricky Ian Gordon, setting poems by Langston Hughes, Edna St. Vincent Millay and other great American writers, will fall outside the realm of musical theater. That would be a mistake. One doesn't have to listen very long to realize this recording should not be filed under classical.
Despite the participation of Dawn Upshaw and the Juilliard-trained Audra McDonald -- who both offer the kind of polished singing (even tone, spot-on intonation, rhythmic precision and elegant phrasing) that would be equally welcome in Schubert or Sondheim -- the performance style on Bright Eyed Joy is pure musical theater. On the opening selection, a setting of Hughes's "Heaven" crooned by Darius de Haas in a heady, vibratoladen voice, one merely has to close one's eyes to imagine oneself at an Off-Broadway musical. The dry, claustrophobic recording quality merely enhances the illusion. Broadway aficionados will likely enjoy the animated performances of de Haas, Judy Blazer, Theresa McCarthy, Adam Guettel and Chris Trakas -- although the contrast with McDonald and Upshaw is jarring.
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