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First Complete Recording of The Cradle Will Rock Released

Jul. 13, 2018

First Complete Recording of <em>The Cradle Will Rock</em> Released

One year after its highly acclaimed production of Blitzstein’s The Cradle Will Rock, Opera Saratoga’s resulting original cast album has been released on Bridge Records. The two-disc set, with liner notes by music director John Mauceri, provides listeners a unique opportunity to hear the work in Blitzstein’s original orchestrations, a striking contrast to the handful of piano-only recordings currently available. The album also includes as a bonus track an archival interview with Blitzstein in which he describes the spectacle of the opening night of the original Broadway production. Though now the stuff of Broadway legend, Blitzstein's first-hand account of the events of that night adds new immediacy to the infamous tale.


("Nickel Under the Foot" from The Cradle Will Rock; Patti LuPone; Acting Company, 1985)

The large cast of principal performers includes Christopher Burchett as Larry Foreman, Ginger Costa-Jackson as Moll, Matt Boehler as Mr. Mister, Audrey Babcock as Mrs. Mister, and Justin Hopkins as Reverend Salvation.

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Marc Blitzstein
The Cradle Will Rock (1937)
a play in music
libretto (Eng) by Marc Blitzstein
for 5 mezzo-sopranos, alto, tenor, 5 baritones, 2 bass-baritones, 3 basses, male octet and chorus
1(pic).0.2(1.bcl).0.asax(cl).tsax(cl)-0.2.1(tenor-bass).0-timp.perc-pno.acc-gtr(banjo, Hawaiian gtr or pedal steel gtr)-str
[optional: bugles (trumpets or flugelhorns), fifes (piccolos), side drums]
120’ 

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