Gatsby Songs: From the Opera The Great Gatsby (Vocal Collection) Review

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(More customer reviews)Formatted as sheet music songs (not arias), these excerpts from the opera by John Harbison--one of America's greatest living composers--ought to be in every singer's repertory. Getting copyright for actual Gatsby-era tunes was too expensive, so Harbison created his own (he played jazz in his younger days).

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New York's Metropolitan Opera ushers in the new millennium with the world premiere of John Harbison's splendid opera The Great Gatsby, with a libretto based on F. Scott Fitzgerald's masterpiece. Among the highlights of the production are the fourteen "Gatsby Songs," written in the energetic dance style of the 1920s with sparklingly witty lyrics by Murray Horwitz.Contents: By the Shore * Kind of in Love * Funny New Feeling * A Saturday Night To-Do * I'm Leavin' It All to You * I Could End Up Loving You Tonight * Dreaming of You * Blowing a Bundle on You * I Can't Believe It * Remember the Old Days * I'm Doin' Fine * Cool * Who Can Say * Strange.

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