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Track List: Dessa Rose

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Disc 1:

  1. Act One: We Are Descended - Company
  2. Act One: Comin' Down The Quarters - Kaine
  3. Act One: Ol' Banjar - Kaine
  4. Act One: Scene - 'Oh, Slavery Didn't Do Away...' - Rose
  5. Act One: Something Of My Own - Rose
  6. Act One: Scene - 'Watch Your Step, Mr. Nehemiah...' - Nehemiah
  7. Act One: Ink - Nehemiah
  8. Act One: Scene - 'Hey Hey...Hey Hey...' - Rose
  9. Act One: Scene - 'You Had No Call To Break That' - Steele
  10. Act One: Scene - 'Why You Kill Him?...' - Rose
  11. Act One: The Gold Band - Field Hands, Old Ruth, Rose, Harker, Mrs. Steele, Wilson, Nehemiah, Nathan, Coffle
  12. Act One: Scene - 'See Them Stars...' - Nathan
  13. Act One: Little Star - Harker
  14. Act One: Scene - 'Hey, Pretty Girl...' - Wilson
  15. Act One: The Gold Band (Conclusion) - Ensemble
  16. Act One: Ladies - Ruth's Mother
  17. Act One: Bertie's Waltz - Ruth
  18. Act One: At The Glen - Ruth
  19. Act One: Scene - 'Good Afternoon, Odessa...' - Nehemiah
  20. Act One: Scene - 'Observations On The Famed Devil Woman...' - Nehemiah
  21. Act One: Capture The Girl - Nehemiah
  22. Act One: Scene - 'Janet? Philip?...' - Ruth
  23. Act One: Scene - 'The People On Her Place...' - Ruth
  24. Act One: Scene - 'Miss, We Was Only' - Nathan
  25. Act One: Fly Away - Susannah
  26. Act One: Scene - 'That's The First Time...' - Nehemiah
  27. Act One: Scene - 'I'm Sorry, Master...' - Nehemiah
  28. Act One: Fly Away (Conclusion)/How Long Will It Be? - Nathan
  29. Act One: Dessa Rose Escapes - Nehemiah
  30. Act One: Terrible - Nehemiah, Gemina, Tina, Joy, Joseph, Eric, Dessa Rose, Nathan, Harker, Philip, Old Ruth
  31. Act One: Scene - 'Mmm...Hmm...' - Ruth
  32. Act One: Scene - 'Obstinate Little Fool...' - Ruth
  33. Act One: Their Eyes Are Clear, Blue Like Sky - Rose
  34. Act One: Scene - 'This Baby Don't Need No Name' - Ruth
  35. Act One: Twelve Children - Dessa Rose

Disc 2:

  1. Act Two: Noah's Done - Nathan
  2. Act Two: Scene - 'Through Talking To Nathan...' - Nathan
  3. Act Two: Scene - 'Why Y'all Call Her Devil Woman?...' - Nathan
  4. Act Two: Scene - 'It Was Then I Knew...' - Old Ruth
  5. Act Two: Fly Away (Reprise) - Harker
  6. Act Two: Scene - 'Ah, Look Here!...' - Nathan, Dessa Rose, Ada, Ruth, Janet, Annabel, Philip, Harker
  7. Act Two: The Scheme - Harker
  8. Act Two: Scene - 'Nathan Thinks We Might Could...' - Harker
  9. Act Two: Scene - 'Why Miz Ruth...' - Nathan
  10. Act Two: In The Bend Of My Arm - Nathan
  11. Act Two: Scene - 'Miz... Nathan!' Nathan...' - Nathan
  12. Act Two: Better If I Died - Nathan
  13. Act Two: Ten Petticoats - Ruth's Mother
  14. Act Two: Scene - 'We Organized To Go...' - Harker
  15. Act Two: Just Over The Line - Dessa Rose, Ruth, Nathan, Old ruth, Old Dessa, Auctioneer #1, Janet, Ada, Annabel, Harker, Philip, Auctioneer #2, Young Black Woman, Nehemiah, Susannah
  16. Act Two: Scene - 'Now Things Was Going...' - Ruth
  17. Act Two: A Pleasure - Ruth
  18. Act Two: Scene - 'That Mr. Oscar Is...' - Ruth
  19. Act Two: Scene - 'Not If Your Tongue Gets Loose...' - Ruth
  20. Act Two: Scene - 'I Understood...' - Old Dessa
  21. Act Two: White Milk And Red Blood - Old Ruth
  22. Act Two: Scene - 'They Tell You About...' - Old Dessa
  23. Act Two: Scene - 'Anna, I Swear You Are As Slow As Molasses...' - Ruth
  24. Act Two: Scene - 'It Was Just Like Her...' - Nehemiah
  25. Act Two: Final Sequence - Scene - 'Master, Master...' - Nehemiah
  26. Act Two: Final Sequence - Scene - 'S'caped...' - Ruth
  27. Act Two: Final Sequence - Scene - 'I Don't Want Your Money, Child...' - Dessa Rose
  28. Act Two: Final Sequence - Scene - 'Sheriff, This Gal Ain't Got...' - Nehemiah
  29. Act Two: Final Sequence - Scene - 'Sheriff, I Got...' - Nehemiah
  30. Act Two: Final Sequence - Scene - 'No, No! Look Here...' - Ruth
  31. Act Two: Final Sequence - Scene - 'Mistress, I...' - Ruth
  32. Act Two: Final Sequence - Epilogue - We Are Descended - Company
  33. Act Two: Final Sequence - Just Over The Line - Instrumental (Exit Music) - Orchestra

Album Details: Dessa Rose

Release Date:
11/08/2005
Label:
Jay Records
UPC:
605288139222

Pro Reviews: Dessa Rose

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From AMG Reviews

Lyricist/librettist Lynn Ahrens and composer Stephen Flaherty's musical Dessa Rose is in some ways reminiscent of their stage adaptation of Ragtime in that it tells interweaving stories of black and white Americans and their confrontation with racism. Nominally speaking, Ragtime was the larger scale work, encompassing a huge cast, playing in a Broadway theater, and also taking on the immigrant experience in America. But Dessa Rose, which opened at the OffBroadway Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater in New York's Lincoln Center on March 21, 2005, and ran through May 29, is described by annotator Ira Weitzman as a "folk opera," the term originally coined for Porgy and Bess, and this twohour, fulllength recording of the show, dialogue included, reveals that its artistic goals are at least as lofty as those of Ragtime. In her 1986 novel, Sherley Anne Williams created a fictional story combining the lives of two reallife women living in the South during the mid19th century, a pregnant slave girl who incited a slave rebellion and a white woman, left alone on a plantation by her profligate husband, who harbored runaway slaves. Ahrens' adaptation finds both women, in old age, retelling their story, such that leads LaChanze, as Dessa Rose, and Rachel York, as Ruth, are forced to change back and forth from their old to their young selves, sometimes in the same scene. The story is heavily melodramatic, as the saintly AfricanAmerican characters and the white woman who joins them struggle against the monstrous white men who enslave them, torture them, and try to rape them. The plot strains credulity at times, but it is less important than that, by the end, the bond of sisterhood overcomes barriers of race and jealousy. Flaherty's music naturally makes much use of 19th century American popular styles, from folk songs to society waltzes, with a heavy debt to Stephen Foster. The cast is talented and enthusiastic, lending a degree of authenticity to a work that otherwise might come across as contrived.

- William Ruhlmann, All Music Guide


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