It's JAZZ Piazza!
http://www.nonesuch.com/Hi_Band/Piazza/player.html
Plus an interview.
Wow.
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/10/04
thanks so much!
He's got a great voice -- He sings a lot on the cd of his song cycle "Myths and Hymns".
*swoons*
I think I love him.
Adam Guettel -- will you marry me? I'm a little young, but that's fine. Take me!
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
I was definitely going to start this thread!! I love his version fo "Dividing Day" with the strings and everything. He has such a great voice. I am in LOVE with The Light in the Piazza.
Just when I thought things couldn't get any better....SHA-ZAM!
As if we need any more reasons to love him :0)
SO GOOD.
The interview with him on that same page is also illuminating...no pun intended. He really is a brilliant man who thinks on many levels and strives to create a score that grows with exposure but has an immediate impact as well.
dividing day without words is so bizarre lol. Love that melody though. I think he has a decent voice.... i dont think it is amazing though. What a great composer though....snaps for him.
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/10/04
i love that dividing day... especially the accompaniment. also, does the interview end really abruptly for anyone else?
Broadway Star Joined: 11/14/04
Yeah, the interview ended abruptly for me too.
But wow, those demos are something. The accompaniment is amazing. I'm in love.
it stopped as victoria was singing FABLE for me (or the beauty is reprise... i forget which one it was). I love the insight he provides... seems like a really thorough and brilliant guy who is still down to earth. I could listen to him play the piano on those songs for days... you dont even need any voices to hear how beautiful this music is!
i know. I'd buy this if nonesuch released his demo versions.
Stand-by Joined: 2/25/05
he also sings light in the piazza here :http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4518817
its actually love to me and light in the piazza. i prefer him singing his songs sometimes more than i prefer the cast singing his songs.
I'm listening to the Dividing Day demo right now. I love this!
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Adam Guettel is a god. It's proven now.
He really is incredible. Wow, he's really great!
"I think it was the Korean tour or something. They were all frickin' asian!" -Zoran912
Bit of a threadjack here but has anybody gotten the CD of Sondheim Sings?
I've heard some of it. Not a big fan.
I think it is more of a Sondheim completist thing anyways...meh
Exactly. I love Sondheim, but I'm happy enough hearing the actual performers singing his songs.
I think it has a lot to do with the way they compose. Sondheim thinks about the message of the song, the character's motivation, and the wordplay to get that message across, while Guettel thinks of the emotion of the moment, the musical vernacular that character would use, and he adds lyrics after the rest of the song is composed. Thus, Sondheim is fun to listen to talk about how a song came about, and Guettel is more fun to listen to immersing himself in that musical moment.
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