I Wish It So
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Track Listing
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13:18
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105:38
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112:42
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122:35
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133:53
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142:36
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22:33
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33:02
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News & Reviews
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Pulitzer Prize–winning composer Caroline Shaw's second Nonesuch album, Narrow Sea, is out now. Shaw wrote the album's title piece, for Sō Percussion, Dawn Upshaw, and Gilbert Kalish, who perform it here: five parts, each a new setting of a text from The Sacred Harp, the 19th-century collection of shape-note hymns. Video for all five parts of the piece can be seen here. Also on the album is Sō Percussion's performance of Shaw's Taxidermy, which she wrote for the ensemble.
Caroline Shaw, Sō Percussion, Dawn Upshaw, Gilbert Kalish Share Story Behind New Album, 'Narrow Sea'Composer Caroline Shaw's new album, Narrow Sea, featuring Sō Percussion, Dawn Upshaw, and Gilbert Kalish's performance of the title piece—five parts, each a new setting of a text from The Sacred Harp, the 19th-century collection of shape-note hymns—is due next Friday, January 22, on Nonesuch. Here, the artists talk with writer Matthew Guerrieri about the album, which also includes Sō Percussion's performance of Shaw's Taxidermy. Find out why she tells Guerrieri: "I was telling a friend, half-jokingly, that, in a lot of my music, I’m trying to figure out a way to talk about death and mortality, or think about it."
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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 SternPRODUCTION 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
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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.”
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.”
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

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MUSICIANS
Dawn Upshaw, vocals
Eric Stern, piano (1, 5, 9)
Leslie Stifelman, piano (5, 9)
Matthias Naegele, cello (12)
Orchestra conducted by Eric Stern