Dawn Upshaw: The World So Wide
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Composer: John AdamsComposer: Leonard Bernstein
Composer: Tania Leon
Composer: Aaron Copland
Composer: Kurt Weill
Composer: Samuel Barber
Composer: Carlisle Floyd
Conductor: David Zinman
Orchestra: Orchestra of St. Luke's
Performer: Dawn Upshaw
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1998-05-26
Music Label: Nonesuch
Soundtracks:
- Laurie's Song
- This is Prophetic
- What a Movie
- Oh Yemanja (Mother's Prayer)
- Willow Song
- Lonely House
- Give Me Some Music
- Ain't it a Pretty Night
Music reviews of Dawn Upshaw: The World So Wide
Music Review: Please control the swooping, Dawn
Rating: 3 Stars
Upshaw is a real favorite with many aficionados of twentieth-century music because of her adventurousness in tackling the modern repertoire and for her sensitivity in interpretation. In recent years, however, she's veered from the tact and discipline that informed her beautiful rendition of Barber's "Knoxville" and has instead given way to some incredibly irritating affectations, including a bizarrely distorting overenunciation of consonants and swooping when she reaches certain notes. Unfortunately these tendencies mar her performance on the disc of what should be a signature piece for her, Adams's exquisite aria for Pat Nixon, "This is prophetic!" On the recording of NIXON IN CHINA, Carolann Page gives a far more tactful and heartbreaking rendition of this aria than Upshaw, who whoops and swoops through it to oddly overstated effect.Upshaw is far more successful on this disc on the more theatrical pieces: she handles the Willow Song from BALLAD OF BABY DOE admirably, giving it the drama it needs, and she's pretty funny in her rendition of Bernstein's showstopping "What a movie!" from TROUBLE IN TAHITI (though again here the overenunciation of consonants makes her sound at times like Julie Andrews). Her decision to record Weill's "Lonely Town," a song for tenors, is a bit strange, but she handles it very movingly.
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