Audra McDonald - Way Back to Paradise
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Artist: Audra McDonaldEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1998-09-22
Music Label: Nonesuch
Soundtracks:
- Dream Variations
- Way Back to Paradise
- Come to Jesus
- You Don't Know This Man
- Tom
- Tragic Story
- Song for a Dark Girl
- Baby Moon
- Allure of Silence
- Stars and the Moon
- I Follow
- Mistress of the Senator
- Lullaby
- Daybreak in Alabama
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Free Music Review: David Patrick Stearns Quote about the CD
Hit: 5 Stars
In this world of post-modern cynicism, how often do you hear a new song and
think it's a masterpiece? That happens on Audra McDonald's new disc, not
once but four times. The rest of it is pretty fine, too. And on repeated
listenings, it all gets even better.
Masterpiece No. 4 is Ricky Ian Gordon's A Lullaby,
in which the words are meant to prepare a child for the complexities and
sorrows of adulthood. The music's sweet and sour harmonies unfold in a huge
crescendo, expressing those ideas poetically as only music can. Gordon's
style is more mellifluous than the others, his music is perhaps the most
subtle and reveals the most secrets upon repeated hearings."
David Patrick Stearns USA Today Friday, November 20, 1998
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A more explanatory title might be "Sons of Sondheim" since this disc is the first anthology of the young, brainy, literate, hip songwriters who are influenced by Stephen Sondheim and just might turn Broadway's artistic compass several degrees away from Disneyland. Musically, they break most unwritten precepts by freely modulating into distant keys and throwing traditional notions about form and symmetry to the wind when dramatic content dictates it. Adam Guettel is the master storyteller in "Come to Jesus" (about abortion) and "Baby Moon" (about pregnancy). Michael John La Chiusa writes great character sketches: his "Mistress of the Senator" might as well be a tour through the mind of Monica Lewinsky. Ricky Ian Gordon is the most subtle, poetic, and abstract, exploring interior states of being, using the words of Langston Hughes and others. McDonald is ideal throughout, deploying her lustrous soprano with the dramatic relish that has won her three Tony Awards. This could be a watershed release. --David Patrick StearnsBroadway & Vocalists Music CDs
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