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Audio: English (Unknown)
CD Release Date: 2005-06-21
Music Label: Koch Int'L Classics
Soundtracks:
- Prelude to Act I
- Who Am I?
- Peter's Tears
- Shadow Dance
- Flight to Neverland
- Flying Music
- Prelude to Act II=20
- Pirate Song
- Croc Music
- Wendy's Entrance
- Build My House
- Scene Change
- Neverland
- Pirate's Song - reprise
- Lagoon Fight
- Scene Change
- Peter Peter
- Indian-Pirate Fight
- Hook's Poison
- Tink Sick - Tink Lives!
- Captain Hook Soliloquy
- Prelude to Act III
- Crew Dance
- Plank Round
- Fight
- Scene Change
- Dream With Me
- Underscore
- Scene Change
- Spring Will Come Again (Bonus Track)
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Free Music Review: Pirates' Treasure
Hit: 5 Stars
Lovely songs, and for those of you who are skeptical that there'snot enough to make a whole LP out of, I'm here to reassure you that you are definitely getting your money's worth. Thirty tracks (all right, some of them less than a minute long) and some of them go on and on in fully realized and orchestrated.
"Who Am I?" is almost a success, there's some wonderful writing on it, and the ideas Wendy is trying to express are grand ones, almost like the questions OUR TOWN raises. Is there a plan for us? Is it just chance I was born in July? Wendy muses about how likely it is that she has been reincarnated and next she could come back as anything-even a fly. It's just a little repetitive, and lacks that little something that would have pushed it over the edge into pure pleasure. Linda Eder seems more at home in the tumult and resounding chords of the anthemic "Build My House," which boast the best instrumentals on the whole LP. It's a great tune, and one that will stay with you. I wouldn't be surprised if it turned into a standard high school graduation number a la YOU'LL NEVER WALK ALONE.
The liner notes tell the whole story, but I would have liked more on the ways in which Boris Karloff and Jean Arthur did or didn't intersect with this music. There are some hints that one or the other Hollywood diva deep-sixed some of the hitherto unknown tunes. What about the gorgeous "Dream With Me"? It seems to me that if you could sing "Build My House," then "Dream With Me" would be a walk in the park. So I don't understand the implication that the music was too difficult.
Another great number is the mermaid's chorale, "Neverland." It is rather like the Jule Styne/Comden & Green number ("It might be miles beyond the moon") from the Mary Martin Peter Pan, lush and melting chords, but this one has more of a sense of humor.
Throughout the score, the wit is sharp. I love Captain Hook's soliloquy in which, after boasting of his fame, he turns depressed as he realizes that when children play Peter Pan at home, they'll do anything rather than have to be Captain Hook. Even dim Smee has more fans.
I didn't much care for "Spring Will Come Again." (This "bonus track" was intended for a Bernstein version of Wilder's SKIN OF OUR TEETH.) It has some nice passages for voice, but it is an example of a lyric which tries hard to be deep but ultimately doesn't have much to say.
All of my hats are off to Alexander Frey, who played detective and discovered all the PETER PAN music during a series of visits to New York, then corralled in some magnificent musicians and actors to perform it for us. It's like opening a pirate chest of gold!
Peter Pan (2005 Studio Cast) - Leonard Bernstein Poster
Peter Pan is Leonard Bernstein's least-known musical--or at least chunk of a musical. Featuring four Bernstein songs, the show opened on Broadway in 1950; it starred Jean Arthur (then nearly 50!) as Peter Pan and Boris Karloff as Captain Hook. The show used Alec Wilder's underscore, but Bernstein had composed one as well, and his finally sees the light of day on this CD after years of research and restoration by conductor Alexander Frey. Was it worth the effort? Absolutely. Bernstein fans will of course crave the CD, but it should delight newcomers as well. The instrumental tracks display a wide stylistic palette, and the songs are simply wonderful. Just check out "Who Am I" (sung by Linda Eder) and you will hear a ballad as lovely as any?cabaret singers in search of rare material would be well advised to look into it. Baritone Daniel Nardiccio does warm justice to Bernstein's near-operatic passages in "Pirate Song" and "Captain Hook's Soliloquy" (reminiscent of Candide). As if this weren't enough, the CD concludes with the wistful "Spring Will Come Again," which Bernstein had written for a possible musical adaptation of The Skin of Our Teeth. --Elisabeth VincentelliBroadway & Vocalists Music CDs
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