Have you heard Adam Guettel singing 3 Piazza songs (demos)? WOW!

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Have you heard Adam Guettel singing 3 Piazza songs (demos)? WOW!

Posted: 6/10/05 at 10:45pm

It's JAZZ Piazza!

http://www.nonesuch.com/Hi_Band/Piazza/player.html

Plus an interview.

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Updated On: 6/11/05 at 10:45 PM

#2

re: Have you heard Adam Guettel singing his Piazza songs (3 demos)? WOW!

Posted: 6/10/05 at 10:49pm

Wow.

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re: Have you heard Adam Guettel singing his Piazza songs (3 demos)? WOW!

Posted: 6/10/05 at 10:50pm

thanks so much!

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re: Have you heard Adam Guettel singing his Piazza songs (3 demos)? WOW!

Posted: 6/10/05 at 10:50pm

He's got a great voice -- He sings a lot on the cd of his song cycle "Myths and Hymns".

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re: Have you heard Adam Guettel singing his Piazza songs (3 demos)? WOW!

Posted: 6/10/05 at 10:50pm

*swoons*

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re: Have you heard Adam Guettel singing his Piazza songs (3 demos)? WOW!

Posted: 6/10/05 at 10:53pm

I think I love him.

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re: Have you heard Adam Guettel singing his Piazza songs (3 demos)? WOW!

Posted: 6/10/05 at 10:53pm

Adam Guettel -- will you marry me? I'm a little young, but that's fine. Take me!

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re: Have you heard Adam Guettel singing his Piazza songs (3 demos)? WOW!

Posted: 6/10/05 at 10:57pm

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.

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re: Have you heard Adam Guettel singing his Piazza songs (3 demos)? WOW!

Posted: 6/10/05 at 11:05pm

Just when I thought things couldn't get any better....SHA-ZAM!

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re: Have you heard Adam Guettel singing his Piazza songs (3 demos)? WOW!

Posted: 6/10/05 at 11:14pm

As if we need any more reasons to love him :0)

SO GOOD.

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re: Have you heard Adam Guettel singing his Piazza songs (3 demos)? WOW!

Posted: 6/10/05 at 11:36pm

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.

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re: Have you heard Adam Guettel singing his Piazza songs (3 demos)? WOW!

Posted: 6/10/05 at 11:40pm

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.

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re: Have you heard Adam Guettel singing his Piazza songs (3 demos)? WOW!

Posted: 6/10/05 at 11:42pm

i love that dividing day... especially the accompaniment. also, does the interview end really abruptly for anyone else?

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re: Have you heard Adam Guettel singing his Piazza songs (3 demos)? WOW!

Posted: 6/10/05 at 11:49pm

Yeah, the interview ended abruptly for me too.

But wow, those demos are something. The accompaniment is amazing. I'm in love.

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re: Have you heard Adam Guettel singing his Piazza songs (3 demos)? WOW!

Posted: 6/10/05 at 11:51pm

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!

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re: Have you heard Adam Guettel singing his Piazza songs (3 demos)? WOW!

Posted: 6/11/05 at 10:06am

i know. I'd buy this if nonesuch released his demo versions.

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re: Have you heard Adam Guettel singing his Piazza songs (3 demos)? WOW!

Posted: 6/11/05 at 10:16am

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.

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Posted: 6/11/05 at 11:36am

I'm listening to the Dividing Day demo right now. I love this!

Alejandra

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Posted: 6/11/05 at 12:34pm

Adam Guettel is a god. It's proven now.

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Posted: 6/11/05 at 12:58pm

He really is incredible. Wow, he's really great!

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Posted: 6/11/05 at 1:00pm

Bit of a threadjack here but has anybody gotten the CD of Sondheim Sings?

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re: Have you heard Adam Guettel singing his Piazza songs (3 demos)? WOW!

Posted: 6/11/05 at 1:04pm

I've heard some of it. Not a big fan.

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re: Have you heard Adam Guettel singing his Piazza songs (3 demos)? WOW!

Posted: 6/11/05 at 1:06pm

I think it is more of a Sondheim completist thing anyways...meh

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Posted: 6/11/05 at 1:14pm

Exactly. I love Sondheim, but I'm happy enough hearing the actual performers singing his songs.

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re: Have you heard Adam Guettel singing his Piazza songs (3 demos)? WOW!

Posted: 6/11/05 at 1:51pm

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.