WILLIAM BOLCOM: CABARET SONGS
BENITA VALENTE (SOPRANO), JOAN MORRIS (MEZZO-SOPRANO), WILLIAM BOLCOM (PIANO), CYNTHIA RAIM (PIANO) Y MICHAEL TREE (VIOLA)

Let Evening Come: Ailey, Baldwin, Floyd, Killens, and Mayfield. ´Tis not that dying hurts us so. Interlude. Let evening come. Briefly enters (sobre poemas de Jane Kenyon): Who. The clearing. Otherwise. February:thinking of flowers. Twilight: After haying. Man eating. The sick wife. Peonies at dusk. Briefly it enters, and Briefly speaks. Cabaret Songs: The total stranger in the garden. Love in the thirties. Thius king of Orf. Miracle song. Satisfaction. Radical Sally. Angels are the highest form of virtue. Poet Pal of mine. Can´t sleep. At the last lousy moments of love. Lady Luck. Blue.

Hay una nueva generación de cantantes que intentan fusionar la opera tradicional y el teatro popular americano. Las canciones de este disco nacen partiendo de la idea de contribuir a crear repertorio para esta nueva forma de interpretación híbrida, para ser interpretadas igualmente por actores de ópera o cabaret.