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Author Weill, Kurt, 1900-1950.

Title Street scene : an American opera / Kurt Weill ; book by Elmer Rice ; lyrics by Langston Hughes.

Publication Info. New York, N.Y. : CBS Masterworks, [1988?]

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 Moore Audio CD  CD 8    Available  Ask at Circulation Desk
 Talbott CD Annex  CD 2136 c.2  Available  Ask at Circulation Desk  Gift of Robert Schwartz
 Talbott Media  CD 2136    Available  Ask at Circulation Desk
Description 1 audio disc (52 min.) : digital, mono ; 4 3/4 in.
Playing Time 005200
Physical Medium 4 3/4 in.
Description digital
optical
1.4 m/s
mono
digital recording
Performer Original Broadway cast: Anne Jeffreys ; Polyna Stoska ; Brian Sullivan ; other singers ; orchestra ; Maurice Abravanel, conductor.
Event Recorded 1947, New York City.
Note Compact disc.
Program notes by the composer (11 p.) inserted in container.
Contents Act I, Introduction and opening ensemble : Prelude ; Moonfaced, starry-eyed ; Ain't it awful, the heart -- Blues : I got a marble and a star -- Gossip trio : Get a load of that -- Arietta : When a woman has a baby -- Aria : Somehow I never could believe -- Wrapped in a ribbon and tied in a bow -- Arioso : Lonely home -- Scene and song : Wouldn't you like to be on Broadway? -- Cavatina : What good would the moon be? -- Duet : Remember that I care -- Act II, Introduction : Morning -- Children's game -- Song : A boy like you -- Duet : We'll go away together -- Choral scene and lament : The woman who lived up there -- Lullaby -- Finale : I loved her too -- Farewell duet : Don't forget the lilac bush.
Subject Operas -- Excerpts.
Operas -- Excerpts.
Genre/Form Sound recordings.
Sound recordings.
Operas.
Operas.
Excerpts.
Excerpts.
Added Author Rice, Elmer, 1892-1967, librettist.
Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967, lyricist.
Jeffreys, Anne, performer.
Stoska, Polyna, performer.
Sullivan, Brian, 1919-1969, performer.
Abravanel, Maurice, 1903-1993, conductor.
Added Title Street scene. Selections https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2012026128
Standard No. 7464446682
Music No. MK 44668 CBS Masterworks