Yesterday in Dead Musicians ♪♫ - November 27 11-27b: Lee Morgan Delightfulee 1966 - Weill / Brecht Three-Penny Opera (in English) : Lotte Lenya 1954 - Dufay Music For St Anthony Of Padua / Binchois Consort 1996 - Honegger : Jeanne d'Arc au Bucher / Zorina | Ormandy 1952 1474 – Guillaume Dufay (Flemish composer) 1749 – Balthasar Schmid (German composer & music publisher, friend of J.S. Bach) 1749 – Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel (German composer) 1890 – Emanuele Muzio (Italian conductor & composer, friend & assistant to Verdi) 1899 – Felipe Gutiérrez y Espinosa (Puerto Rican composer) 1915 – Sigismund Zaremba [Сигизмунд Заремба] (Ukrainian composer & conductor of Polish ancestry) 1916 – James Cutler Dunn Parker (American composer, organist & pianist) 1932 – Evelyn Preer (American actress & blues singer) 1955 – Luís de Freitas Branco (Portuguese composer & teacher) 1955 – Arthur Honegger (French-born Swiss composer & violinist) 1958 – Artur Rodziński (Polish-born American conductor) 1965 – Carl Parrish (American musicologist & author) 1967 – Héctor [Ettore] Panizza (Argentine conductor & composer) 1968 – Hans Redlich (Austrian composer, conductor, musicologist & author) 1968 – Gino Roncaglia (Italian musicologist & author) 1973 – Frank Christian (American jazz trumpeter) 1981 – Lotte Lenya (Austrian singer, monologist & actress, spouse of Kurt Weill) 1982 – Filip Kutev [Филип Кутев] (Bulgarian composer & choirmaster, Bulgarian State Television Female Vocal Choir) 1988 – Karel Horký (Czech composer & bassoonist) 1994 – Fernando Lopes-Graça (Portuguese composer & musicologist) 1998 – Barbara Acklin (American soul singer & songwriter) 2005 – Joe Jones (American R&B singer, songwriter & arranger) 2006 – Don Butterfield (American jazz & classical tuba player) 2006 – Alan Freeman (English disc jockey) ************************************************* Dufay: Music For St Anthony Of Padua (Hyperion, 1996; reissue Helios, 2008) 01-10 Dufay: Missa "Sancti Antonii de Padua" 11 Dufay: O sidus Hispaniae Binchois Consort Andrew Kirkman front: http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2008/Jan08/Dufay_cdh55271.jpg mp3 (2 parts): http://www.megaupload.com/?d=FCOXGZS8 http://www.megaupload.com/?d=7MZPEVAU PASSWORD: merapid ************************************************* Arthur Honegger: Jeanne d'Arc au Bûcher (Philips, 1952) 2 LPs, vinyl rip Jeanne d'Arc au Bûcher (Joan of Arc of the Stake) Dramatic oratorio on a text by Paul Claudel composed 1935 speakers: Vera Zorina, Raymond Gerome singers: Frances Yeend, Carolyn Long, Martha Lipton, David Lloyd, Kenneth Smith Temple University Choirs St. Peter's Boys' Choir The Philadelphia Orchestra Eugene Ormandy front: http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_5vsY1tUqw-I/S_3AskT8IcI/AAAAAAAABH8/SAlTTu9Bh_g/s1600/Jd%27Arc_cover.jpg mp3: http://rapidshare.com/files/391404132/Honegger_Jeanne_d_Arc.zip ************************************************* Kurt Weill / Bertold Brecht: The Three-Penny Opera - Broadway Cast Recording (Decca, 1954) Adaptation in English by Marc Blitzstein 01. Prologue (Spoken) 02. Overture 03. The Ballad of Mac the Knife 04. Morning Anthem 05. Instead-Of-Song 06. Army Song 07. Wedding Song 08. Love Song 09. Ballad of Dependency 10. The World Is Mean 11. Melodrama and Polly's Song 12. Pirate Jenny 13. Tango Ballad 14. Ballad of the Easy Life 15. Barbara Song 16. Jealousy Duet 17. How to Survive 18. Useless Song 19. Solomon Song 20. Call from the Grave 21. Death Message 22. Finale The Mounted Messanger 23. Ballad of Mac the Knife Lotte Lenya (Jenny) Bea Arthur (Lucy Brown) Charlotte Rae (Mrs. Peachum) Jo Sullivan (Polly Peachum) Scott Merrill (Macheath "Mack The Knife") Martin Wolfson (Mr. J.J. Peachum) Gerald Price (The Streetsinger) George Tyne (Tiger Brown). Theatre de Lys, Greenwich Village, NY 03/10/1954 Samuel Matlowsky front: http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_7_aZpQb7lKM/S7osc1PR1fI/AAAAAAAACoo/5KVzOWroZwo/s1600/capa.jpg mp3: http://www.4shared.com/file/257664129/eb078987/STOM-KWeill3PennyOpera_english.html ************************************************* Lee Morgan - Delightfulee (Blue Note, 1966) "Ca-Lee-So" - 5:34 "Zambia" - 6:33 "Yesterday" (Lennon, McCartney) - 5:49 "Sunrise, Sunset" (Bock, Harnick) - 6:17 "Nite Flite" - 7:38 "The Delightful Deggie" - 6:38 "Need I?" - 7:11 Bonus track on CD "Filet of Soul (aka Hoppin' John)" - 8:30 Bonus track on CD "Zambia" - 8:01 Bonus track on CD "The Delightful Deggie" - 5:49 Bonus track on CD All compositions by Lee Morgan except as indicated Recorded at Rudy Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, November 29, 1966 quintet: Lee Morgan - trumpet Joe Henderson - tenor saxophone McCoy Tyner - piano Bob Cranshaw - bass Billy Higgins - drums big band: Philly Joe Jones - drums Ernie Royal - trumpet Tom McIntosh - trombone Jim Buffington - french horn Don Butterfield - tuba Phil Woods - alto saxophone, flute Wayne Shorter - tenor saxophone Danny Bank - baritone saxophone, bass clarinet, flute Oliver Nelson - arrangements front: http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-qwJm61hFfJk/TZ7MoP4hSYI/AAAAAAAAEdI/3P4GBajOQcI/s1600/delightfulee.jpg mp3: http://www.fileserve.com/file/aZutsBA ************************************************* http://yesterdayindeadmusicians.blogspot.com/