Five Borough Songbook by Berg / Abreu / Asselin / Bagwell (CD, 2013)

GPR Records, GPR

0091037115973

6046049740

CD

2013

Classical Composers

Berg / Abreu / Asselin / Bagwell

Five Borough Songbook

0.41in

0.25lb.

5.79in

4.89in

24

2

1.1 O City of Ships (Gordon) 1.2 F from Dumbo (Roven) 1.3 Breakfast in New York (Bielawa) 1.4 The City's Love (Hennessy) 1.5 Rapid Transit (Lyons) 1.6 Coney Island Avenue (Kahane) 1.7 On Leaving Brooklyn (Haber) 1.8 Oulipo in the Bronx (Berg) 1.9 Fresh Kills (Courtin) 1.10 G Is for Grimy. (Cipullo) 2.1 City of Orgies... (Martín) 2.2 Refugee Blues (Fairouz) 2.3 The Avenue (II) Platt 2.4 Days Afield on Si (Schickele) 2.5 The New Yorkers (Hagan) 2.6 Looking West... (Favand-See) 2.7 At Home in Si (Wheeler) 2.8 8:46 Am 5 Years Later (Glover) 2.9 Secret Assignation (Tignor) 2.10 Center of the Universe (Thomas) 3.1 Songs About New York City, Songs About Manhattan 3.2 Songs About Queens, Songs About the Bronx 3.3 Songs About Staten Island, Contemporary Song Cycles 3.4 Art Songs, Contemporary Opera

For it's fifth anniversary internationally renowned Five Borough Music Festival commissioned twenty prominent American composers to compose original art songs about New York City. The Five Borough Songbook is the happy result. Prestigious composers include Bielawa, Cipullo, Fairouz, Gordon, Hagen, Kahane, Martin, Platt, Roven, Schickele and more.