Bernstein Century - Bernstein: Trouble In Tahiti / Facsimile
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Composer: Leonard BernsteinConductor: Leonard Bernstein
Orchestra: New York Philharmonic Orchestra
Performer: Columbia Wind Ensemble
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1999-03-16
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
- Trouble In Tahiti: Prelude
- Trouble In Tahiti: Scene I (Breakfast In The Little White Dream-House) - 'How Could You Say'
- Trouble In Tahiti: Scene II (Sam's Office) - 'Yes? Oh, Mister Patridge'
- Trouble In Tahiti: Scene III (Psychiatrist's Office) - Ila (Sam's Office) - 'I Was Standing In A Garden'
- Trouble In Tahiti: Scene Illa (Psychiatrist's Office) - 'Then Desire Took Hold Inside Me'
- Trouble In Tahiti: Scene IV (Meeting In The Street) - 'Well, Of All People' 'I'm On My Way'
- Trouble In Tahiti: Interlude - 'Skid A Lit Day'
- Trouble In Tahiti: Scene V (The Gymnasium) - 'There's A Low'
- Trouble In Tahiti: Scene VI (The Hat Shop) - 'What A Movie'
- Trouble In Tahiti: Scene Vla (Coming Home) - 'There's A Law'
- Trouble In Tahiti: Scene VII (After Dinner) 'Evenin' Shadows'
- Facsimile: Part I: Motlo Adagio - Piu Andante - Moderate Waltz - Tempo - Sostenuto assai - accelerando - a tempo
- Facsimile: Part II: Allegretto - Subito Allegro - Piu mosso - Andante - Meno mosso - rallentando - Adagio - Molto - Et Al
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Music Review: A great find for anyone who loves Bernstein's musicals
Rating: 5 Stars
By 1952 Leonard Bernstein had already finished a triumphant decade. His Sym. #1 had won the Pulitzer Prize, he had made a spectcular debut with the NY Phil., his ballet Fancy Free and the spin-off musical derived form it, On the Town, were smash hits. So the amazon reviewer isn't on the mark to call Trouble in Tahiti an early piece, nor is he right to say that Bernstein had a lifelong ambition to write the great American opera.
Trouble in Tahiti is jazzy and colloquial, its melodies and rhythms familiar to anyone who knows Bernstein's musc from the Forties, or the musical Wonderful Town that would follow it the next year. The work is operatic only in the sense that the voices of the two leads are more operatic than Broadway, but not by much. The trio that serves as Greek chorus sings in a parodistic pop style, half Andrews Sisters, half Manhattan Transfer.
The libretto is a bit embarrassing in its soap-opera simplicity, but in this case "dated" is a synonym for nostalgic--the score is full of tunes that evoke the immediate post-war period. The jazzy ballet filler, Facsimile, is just as winning. There was a classic performance in mono with Beverly Wolff in the lead that collectors prize, but this later stereo remake is almost as good. I've loved this minor work since I saw a college production in 1965 and return to it whenever I want to rekindle fond memories.
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