The Grapes of Wrath

The Grapes of Wrath

The Grapes of Wrath
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Performer: Minnesota Opera Chorus
Composer: Ricky Ian Gordon
Composer: Michael Korie
Conductor: Grant Gershon
Edition: Music CD
Format: Box set, Cast Recording
CD Release Date: 2008-08-26
Music Label: P.S. Classics
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
  1. The Grapes of Wrath, opera in 3 acts: Act 1. The Last Time There Was Rain
  2. The Grapes of Wrath, opera in 3 acts: Act 1. I Keep My Nose Clean / Where's Ya' Headin'?
  3. The Grapes of Wrath, opera in 3 acts: Act 1. So Long, Savior / I Baptized You / A Naked Tree a-Wastin' in the Sun
  4. The Grapes of Wrath, opera in 3 acts: Act 1. Gone / Not My Fault
  5. The Grapes of Wrath, opera in 3 acts: Act 1. Who Are You Cleanin' For?
  6. The Grapes of Wrath, opera in 3 acts: Act 1. Promise Me, Tommy
  7. The Grapes of Wrath, opera in 3 acts: Act 1. You Can't Keep a Joad in Jail / Not My Fault
  8. The Grapes of Wrath, opera in 3 acts: Act 1. Good Machine
  9. The Grapes of Wrath, opera in 3 acts: Act 1. Tricky Old Devil
  10. The Grapes of Wrath, opera in 3 acts: Act 1. Us
  11. The Grapes of Wrath, opera in 3 acts: Act 1. Soothing Syrup
  12. The Grapes of Wrath, opera in 3 acts: Act 1. The Plenty Road / Okies / Need Some Gas, Mister / Okies/The Plenty Road
  13. The Grapes of Wrath, opera in 3 acts: Act 1. Handbills
  14. The Grapes of Wrath, opera in 3 acts: Act 1. I Can't Tell You
  15. The Grapes of Wrath, opera in 3 acts: Act 1. We'll Find Work
  16. The Grapes of Wrath, opera in 3 acts: Act 1. The Zephyr / One Star
  17. The Grapes of Wrath, opera in 3 acts: Act 1. He Don't Understand
  18. The Grapes of Wrath, opera in 3 acts: Act 1. A Word for This Old Man
  19. The Grapes of Wrath, opera in 3 acts: Act 1. Finale. Us (Reprise)
Music CD 2
  1. The Grapes of Wrath, opera in 3 acts: Act 2. Truck Drivers
  2. The Grapes of Wrath, opera in 3 acts: Act 2. Dry Blue Night / We Can Be Quiet / Rest Peaceful, Mama / Septet. Dry Blue Night
  3. The Grapes of Wrath, opera in 3 acts: Act 2. Inspection Station
  4. The Grapes of Wrath, opera in 3 acts: Act 2. Like They Promised
  5. The Grapes of Wrath, opera in 3 acts: Act 2. My Plum Tree / No Work Here
  6. The Grapes of Wrath, opera in 3 acts: Act 2. The Fire in the Orchard / Ants on the Highway
  7. The Grapes of Wrath, opera in 3 acts: Act 2. Beg Your Pardon, Ma'am / Nice, Neighborly Place We Found Here / Hooverville? Where's Hoo
  8. The Grapes of Wrath, opera in 3 acts: Act 2. Hooverville's Anywhere
  9. The Grapes of Wrath, opera in 3 acts: Act 2. No One Is Goin'
  10. The Grapes of Wrath, opera in 3 acts: Act 2. Handbills / Into the Back, Tom
  11. The Grapes of Wrath, opera in 3 acts: Act 2. I Can Be a Help
  12. The Grapes of Wrath, opera in 3 acts: Act 2. Simple Child
Music CD 3
  1. The Grapes of Wrath, opera in 3 acts: Act 3. People Again / Se Ya' at the Hoedown, Ladies!
  2. The Grapes of Wrath, opera in 3 acts: Act 3. Square Dance
  3. The Grapes of Wrath, opera in 3 acts: Act 3. Hold on, Deputy / Handbills (Reprise)
  4. The Grapes of Wrath, opera in 3 acts: Act 3. Fried Dough
  5. The Grapes of Wrath, opera in 3 acts: Act 3. Join the Line / Damn! Them Peaches
  6. The Grapes of Wrath, opera in 3 acts: Act 3. A Step Up the Ladder
  7. The Grapes of Wrath, opera in 3 acts: Act 3. Dry Blue Night/Evening Stroll
  8. The Grapes of Wrath, opera in 3 acts: Act 3. Things Turn Around / A Word for You, Old Friend
  9. The Grapes of Wrath, opera in 3 acts: Act 3. Dios Te Salve
  10. The Grapes of Wrath, opera in 3 acts: Act 3. That You, Ma? / Promise Me, Tommy (Reprise)
  11. The Grapes of Wrath, opera in 3 acts: Act 3. I'll Be There
  12. The Grapes of Wrath, opera in 3 acts: Act 3. The Day the Rain Began
  13. The Grapes of Wrath, opera in 3 acts: Act 3. We Couldn't Save It
  14. The Grapes of Wrath, opera in 3 acts: Act 3. Little Dead Moses
  15. The Grapes of Wrath, opera in 3 acts: Act 3. Barn Road... Night / Gone (Reprise)
  16. The Grapes of Wrath, opera in 3 acts: Act 3. You Own This Barn?
  17. The Grapes of Wrath, opera in 3 acts: Act 3. Take It, Mister / One Star (Reprise)

Music reviews of The Grapes of Wrath

Music Review: Critics Weight In on "The Grapes Of Wrath"
Rating: 5 Stars

Gordon, who first made his name in the theatre and as a composer of
Broadway-style songs, fills his score with beautifully turned genre
pieces, often harking back to American popular music of the twenties and
thirties: Gershwinesque song-and-dance numbers, a few sweetly soaring love songs in the manner of Jerome Kern, banjo-twanging ballads, saxed-up jazz choruses, even a barbershop quartet. You couldn't ask for a more comfortably appointed evening of vintage musical Americana . Yet, with a slyness worthy of Weill, Gordon wields his hummable tunes to critical effect.
Alex Ross, The New Yorker
The music Gordon has written brings these events and characters to
life. At once simple and complex, the score captures the scope and breadth of the story persuasively. Gordon's musical language is a fascinating mix of different styles that incorporate the best of American 20th century music. The score for "The Grapes of Wrath" is a wonderful merger of Aaron Copland, Samuel Barber, George Gershwin and Leonard Bernstein, all of which is mixed together and blended into a sophisticated concoction that is uniquely and unmistakably Gordon's. One of the most important and vital works for the stage to come from a contemporary American composer in many years. A sprawling grand opera that captures the depth, vastness and poetic beauty of the novel
Edward Reichel, Deseret Morning News
As far as I was concerned -- and this is a minority opinion -- the nearly
four-hour opera was too short. Had Gordon and Korie been allowed to
follow their original bliss and create a two-night or more American "Ring" cycle, I would have gladly returned for more. The greatest glory of the opera is Gordon's ability to musically flesh out the entire 11-member Joad clan... Each has a distinct musical style. Each is sympathetic. Gordon and Korie, through sheer conviction, and Minnesota Opera, through a brilliant production and cast, have found the timeless and timely essence of Steinbeck's epic
Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times
The great American opera? Ricky Ian Gordon's "Grapes of Wrath" might
be it. The score - without recitative - is song based and many scenes flow easily into the next. Gordon points to models in "Porgy and Bess," "Street Scene," "Showboat" and Sondheim, but he has gone beyond them in a score that is original and completely his.
Wes Blomster, Musical America/Opera Today
A grand, sprawling, politically astute and musically compelling affair
that amply and accessibly answers the rhetorical question: "An opera about
Okies?" a production of might and sweeping scale, one that in vision and craft, honors Steinbeck's source material
DOMINIC P. PAPATOLA, Pioneer Press
The new opera by Ricky Ian Gordon and Michael Korie masterfully captures
the scope and spirit of Steinbeck's Nobel-winning epic. "The Grapes of Wrath" works as grand opera, with its large cast and sweeping score, and as a pointed reminder that the social problems that vexed Steinbeck never really go away. "I swear, what's this country comin' to?" a chorus of Pump Guys sneers at the desperate "Okies." What, indeed. Gordon's score is, as conductor Grant Gershon described it, "a patchwork - a quilt of American sound." The composer's antecedents - Samuel Barber, Aaron Copland, George Gershwin, among others - are clear, yet Gordon stitches them together in a way all his own. Folk music, swing, Andrews Sisters-style harmonies, jazz, even some Handelian word painting all pop through the contemporary opera fabric. Recurring motifs, such as "Handbills" and "It's Not My Fault," help tie it all up. And don't be surprised if you walk out humming one of the tunes.
By Catherine Reese Newton
The Salt Lake Tribune
What Minnesota Opera has come up with is a splendid, almost perfect
production of an opera that is smart, funny, touching and harrowing,
in all the right places
Michael Anthony, Star Tribune
Waves of beauty and transcendence...
Gordon's compositions are startlingly accomplished in
range, and refreshingly uninhibited in scope. He frequently moves the score into meditative ballads, but also infuses elements of period jazz and pop in a manner that evokes emotion rather than seeming gratuitously referential. His emotional range is vast, from a number in which Ma Joad(Deanne Meek)lets go of her family's past, to a jaunty tribute to truck drivers that opens the second act like a glass of iced lemonade on a hot afternoon. Korie's lyrics are almost perfectly matched to Gordon's score. As the music ranges from high to low, Korie writes passages of piercing beauty, then follows with rhyming couplets that both ably tell the story and evoke the poetry of the characters' tortured lives. He uses blunt, forceful words that elevate the work's emotionalism by mixing fatalism with optimism until the opera begins to sing in the range of the universal. Gordon and Korie have produced a bit of a conundrum: a very long show about suffering and endurance that leaves the viewer enlivened. The intelligence and compassion of their work, combined with the evident vitality and belief of the cast in this opera's merit, supply high emotion with depth and compassion. This is not a happy story, but its telling is nothing short of incandescent.
Quinton Skinner, Variety
10 Best Lists at the years end...
Vintage opera: The pinnacle of the opera season was Ricky Ian Gordon and
Michael Korie's "The Grapes of Wrath," co-commissioned by Utah Opera and presented in Salt Lake City in May. Gordon and Korie's "Grapes" masterfully captured the scope and spirit of John Steinbeck's epic novel.
Catherine Reese Newton, The Salt Lake Tribune
The world premiere adaptation of John Steinbeck's iconic novel was
also the most ambitious, galvanizing and audacious piece of performance I saw this year...what emerged was a three-act, four-hour journey that had both the might of an epic and a naked, intimate honesty that slugged you right in the gut. Composer Ricky Ian Gordon's rangy, cagey, nuanced score had one foot in the opera world and the other tapping more populist ground, referencing Gershwin and Broadway musicals. Michael Korie killed off more Joads than did Steinbeck himself in an unabashedly lefty libretto
Dominic Papatola, Pinoeer Press
Ricky Ian Gordon and Michael Korie took one of the great American novels
and set out to write the great American opera. And they just may have succeeded, thanks to a deeply involving and imaginatively staged world-premiere production by the Minnesota Opera.
ROB HUBBARD
Pioneer Press
An unqualified success and important contribution to contemporary opera,
Edward Reichel, Deseret Morning News
One new opera has left the others in the dust when it comes to a bold dramatic and musical statement -- Ricky Ian Gordon and Michael Korie's The Grapes of Wrath. You sit there thinking, finally, someone has thought about proper structure, about which characters get the best music, about how to build to one satisfying climax after another. Ma Joad's "Simple Child" gave Act II a heartbreaking ending, only to be topped by Rosasharn's aria that concludes Act III -- the one in which she breast-feeds the starving man. Why has this sort of theatrical savvy become so rare in opera?
Brian Kellow, Opera News
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