THE SWEET BYE AND BYE - AN OPERA IN TWO ACTS

Citadel Records

$12.95 
SKU: CT-DOS-2000

CD includes Digital Download / Digital Booklet
Click here for Digital-Only Download.

BSX Records, in association with Citadel Records presents a 2-album set of Jack Beeson's THE SWEET BYE AND BYE, an Opera in Two Acts featuring The Kansas City Lyric Theater Orchestra and Chorus conducted by Russell Patterson.
Recorded in 1974 by Tom Jung at Sound 80, Minneapolis, MN.

Featured performers are as follows:
Kenward Elmslie - Libretto
Noel Rogers - Soprano
Judith Anthony - Soprano
Carolyne James - Mezzo Soprano
Paula Seibel - Soprano
Walter Hook - Bass
Robert Owen Jones - Tenor
Elizabeth Green - Soprano
Thomas Claffy - Tenor
Dennis Howell - Bass Baritone
William Latimer - Baritone

CD 1
Act I, Scene I:
1. On The Beach; The Mourners 3:45
2. The Bathers 1:01
3. Mourners And Bathers 5:31
4. Scene, And Mother Rainey's Aria 'The Wages Of Sin' 5:02
Scene II:
5. Interlude And Love Scene 4:52
6. Billy's 'Love Song' 2:44
7. Scene, Waltz And Quarrel 8:59
8. Betrayal 2:15
9. Sister Rose Ora Easter's Aria 'When I Was A Child' 3:33
10. Scene, The Lifeshine Radio Hour Memorial Service, And March-Trio 12:20
11. Billy's 'Arietta' 2:43
TT: 53:07
CD 2 
Act II, Scene I:
1. Boardwalk Beauty Contest, Lifeshine Parade, And Two Confrontations 8:16
Scene II:
2. In The Lifeshine Ark; Welcome-Home Service 4:15
3. Illustrated Sermon And Kidnapping Dance 7:44
4. Sister Rose Ora Easter's Aria 'A Someday, Somewhere, Maybe Salvation’ 6:02
Scene III:
5. Interlude And Billy's 'Aria'; 'Reconciliation Duet' (Reprise Of #6, Act I) 9:42
6. Murder In The Miracle Room; Accession Of The Sister Elect 9:27
TT: 45:39