Shalimar the clown / music by Jack Perla ; libretto by Rajiv Joseph.

Author/creator Perla, Jack composer.
Format Audio (CD)
PublicationAlbany, NY : Albany Records, [2018]
Copyright Date©2018
Description2 audio discs (2 hr., 13 min., 37 sec.) ; 4 3/4 in.
Subjects

Other author/creatorJoseph, Rajiv, librettist.
Other author/creatorChuchman, Andriana, performer.
Other author/creatorGoeldner, Katharine, performer.
Other author/creatorPanikkar, Sean, performer.
Other author/creatorHammons, Thomas, performer.
Other author/creatorDahl, Gregory, performer.
Other author/creatorOgren, Jayce John, 1979- conductor.
Other author/creatorRushdie, Salman. Shalimar the clown.
Other author/creatorSt. Louis Symphony Orchestra, performer.
Contents Disc 1 (77:49). Act I. Prologue: color of a blade (5:54) -- The Bhand Pather (6:17) -- Boonyi (3:39) -- The woods beyond Pachigam (6:31) -- I am still (6:28) -- The Panchayat (2:25) -- Kashmiriyat: wedding (11:29) -- A new Kashmir (6:15) -- Ladies and gentlemen (1:29) -- The world disappears (1:44) -- A broken machine (1:46) -- Mirrors (1:13) -- Anarkali's dance (2:37) -- Maybe a child (4:38) -- Negotiations (10:54) -- I will wait for you (4:22).
Contents Disc 2 (55:48). Act II. Prologue (4:24) -- My knife (0:51) -- We go mad (2:14) -- Winter has frozen us over again (5:43) -- Come and fight (3:09) -- A child (3:12) -- Who is that? (1:31) -- Shit for brains (2:43) -- One day (2:47) -- The years pass (4:47) -- The destruction of Pachigam (7:22) -- Who lit that fire? (6:58) -- The village of Pachigam still exists (1:29) -- The police said (3:03) -- Knife and arrow (5:26).
General noteBased on the book by Salman Rushdie.
General noteCompact discs.
General noteProgram notes by composer, synopsis, biographical notes and libretto in English (57 pages : color portraits) laid in container.
General noteWorld premiere recording.
Performer Andriana Chuchman, soprano ; Katharine Goeldner, mezzo-soprano ; Sean Panikkar, tenor ; Thomas Hammons, baritone ; Gregory Dahl, bass ; members of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra ; Jayce Ogren, conductor.
Date/time/place of a event noteRecorded 2016 June The Loretto-Hilton Center, Virginia Jackson Browning Theatre, Saint Louis, MO.
LanguageEnglish words.
LCCN 2019627651
UPC 034061169529
Publisher number1695/96 Albany Records
Publisher numberTROY1695/96 Albany Records

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