Track Listing
Click tracks with speaker icon to listen| 1 | I Wish It So (Marc Blitzstein) | 3:18 |
| 2 | There Won't Be Trumpets (Stephen Sondheim) | 2:33 |
| 3 | What More Do I Need? (Stephen Sondheim) | 3:02 |
| 4 | That's Him (Kurt Weill / Ogden Nash) | 3:51 |
| 5 | The Girls of Summer (Stephen Sondheim) | 2:59 |
| 6 | The Saga of Jenny (Kurt Weill / Ira Gershwin) | 3:45 |
| 7 | Like It Was (Stephen Sondheim) | 2:39 |
| 8 | Stay Well (Kurt Weill / Maxwell Anderson) | 2:35 |
| 9 | I Feel Pretty (Leonard Bernstein / Stephen Sondheim) | 2:19 |
| 10 | Glitter and Be Gay (Leonard Bernstein / Richard Wilbur) | 5:38 |
| 11 | My Ship (Kurt Weill / Ira Gershwin) | 2:42 |
| 12 | In The Clear (Marc Blitzstein) | 2:35 |
| 13 | Never Get Lost / Take Me to the World (Marc Blitzstein; Stepehn Sondheim) | 3:53 |
| 14 | My New Friends (Leonard Bernstein) | 2:36 |
News & Reviews
- Monday, January 30, 2012
Carnegie Hall Announces 2012–2013 Season, Featuring Performances, Works by Several Nonesuch Artists
Carnegie Hall has announced its 2012–13 season, and featured among the performers taking the esteemed hall's stages are a number of artists familiar to readers of the Nonesuch Journal, including Kronos Quartet, Richard Goode, Dawn Upshaw, and Alarm Will Sound, as well as world and New York premiere performances of works by Steve Reich, Timothy Andres, and Donnacha Dennehy. In addition, John Adams will lead a Professional Training Workshop for emerging talents through Carnegie Hall's Weill Music Institute.
- Tuesday, June 14, 2011
Donnacha Dennehy's "Grá agus Bás" One of NPR Music's 25 Favorite Albums of 2011, "A Revelation"
Donnacha Dennehy's Nonesuch debut album, Grá agus Bás, has been named one of NPR Music's 25 Favorite Albums of the 2011 (So Far). NPR's Anastasia Tsioulcas calls it "a revelation." She describes the title piece as "haunting and utterly bracing"; the second piece, That the Night Come, was set for "Upshaw and her silvery, glistening voice in bracing, rich, complex and just plain gorgeous displays." Tsioulcas will "be listening to this for a long time to come."
About this Album
Upshaw performs lesser-known Broadway repertoire from Leonard Bernstein, Marc Blitzstein, Stephen Sondheim and Kurt Weill, plus classics like “I Feel Pretty.” Time declared, “Few opera singers have ever seemed so convincing—and comfortable—in the Broadway idiom.”
Credits
MUSICIANS
Dawn Upshaw, vocals
Eric Stern, piano (1, 5, 9)
Leslie Stifelman, piano (5, 9)
Matthias Naegele, cello (12)
Orchestra conducted by Eric Stern
PRODUCTION CREDITS
Produced by Tommy Krasker and John McClure
Recorded April 1993 at The Hit Factory, New York City
Engineered by John McClure
Assistant engineers: Brian Vibberts, Derek Duffy, Lee Anthony, Bill Miho
Audio assistant: Susan Presson
Mixed at Manhattan Center Studios, New York City
Edited by Paul Zinman
Mastered by Robert Ludwig at Gateway Mastering Studios, Portland, ME
Cover photograph by Joel Meyerowitz
Design by Barbara deWilde
Executive Producer: Robert Hurwitz
