Overture (5:19) -- Christopher Street (4:58) -- Ohio (3:29) -- Conquering New York (3:52) -- One hundred easy ways (3:22) -- What a waste (3:07) -- A little bit in love (2:58) -- Pass the football (3:46) -- Conversation piece (3:48) -- A quiet girl (3:38) -- Conga! (3:36) -- Entr'acte (3:54) -- My darlin' Eileen (3:33) -- Swing! (5:14) -- Quiet incidental (:49) -- Reprise : Ohio (1:25) -- It's love (3:33) -- Ballet at the Village Vortex (2:28) -- Wrong note rag (2:25) -- Reprise : It's love (1:23).
Note
Musical in two acts.
Book by Joseph Fields and Jerome Chodorov; lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green; based upon the play My sister Eileen by Joseph Fields and Jerome Chodorov and the stories by Ruth McKenney.
Orchestrations by Don Walker; vocal arrangements by Lehman Engel.
Author
Bernstein, Leonard, 1918-1990, composer.
Title
Wonderful town / music by Bernstein.
Publisher
[Place of publication not identified] : Warner Classics - Parlophone, [2009]
Copyright date
℗2009
Playing time
010637
Type of content
performed music
Type of medium
computer
Type of carrier
online resource
Digital file characteristics
audio file
Event
Recorded 1998 June Studio 1, Abbey Road Recording Studios, London.
Performer
Kim Criswell (Ruth) ; Audra McDonald (Eileen) ; Thomas Hampson (Robert Baker) ; various supporting soloists ; London Voices ; Birmingham Contemporary Music Group ; Simon Rattle, conductor.