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James Standard Userer	I purchased a recent entry in Naxos' American Classics series (Leroy Anderson: Orchestral Favorites) and inside they included a list of upcoming albums in the series. Among the new release was this enticing little item: 8.559086 MOROSS: Orchestral Works Doesn't say what's on it or who the performers may be, but it got me excited, nonetheless. Kirk NP - John Adams: Naive and Sentimental Music
posted 08-18-2002 01:48 PM PT (US)

Dinko Standard Userer	From the Naxos newsletter of last week: quote: MOROSS: The Ballad of the Scandalous Life of Frankie and Johnny; Those Everlasting Blues; Willie the Weeper Hot Springs Music Festival Symphony Orchestra / Richard Rosenberg, conductor / Melisa Barick, soprano / Denise Edda, soprano / Diane Kesling Silberstein, mezzo-soprano / John De Haan, tenor / Hot Springs Music Festival Chamber Chorus / Laura Rosenberg, chorus director Cat. 8.559086
posted 08-18-2002 03:50 PM PT (US)

JJH Standard Userer	I've got a couple Moross classical CDs )I think a symphony, a theme and variations and a ballet amongst others) and his classical stuff is very well done. Well, what would you expect from the composer of The Big Country ?
posted 08-20-2002 08:30 PM PT (US)

Lou Goldberg Standard Userer	Is this out yet?
posted 01-12-2003 01:10 AM PT (US)

Dinko Standard Userer	Yup: I'm a link. Click on me.
posted 01-12-2003 12:12 PM PT (US)

Lou Goldberg Standard Userer	I ordered this (as well as the Naxos Kilar and Japanese Orchestral Favorites CDs) so I'll know what all of them are like first hand very shortly.
posted 01-19-2003 10:05 PM PT (US)

Marian Schedenig Standard Userer	Only have the Naxos Kilar so far, but that's a great one.
posted 01-20-2003 10:14 AM PT (US)

Lou Goldberg Standard Userer	Finally put this into the player. I was familiar with Frankie and Johnnie from previously reorded versions, including one I have on LP from the 50s. This measures up to those even if goes a tad slow and is played a tad less dissonant than it should be. It was first time listening to Those Everlasting Blues and Willie the Weeper. Blues sounds a lot like modernist tinged stuff from the period it was composed in. The strange lyrics are off-putting though. Much more successful is Willie the Weeper. This is Moross at his most urban and cynical. Frankie and Johnnie involves a simple betrayal but Willie speaks about the delusions of every man in modern society: the drug use, the wealth, the failures, the bad women, the psychologically divided self. The best passage both musically and in terms of the witty rhyming lyrics comes early with Rich Willie. This said, I'd trade all the music on this CD for 10 minutes more of another Moross film score. This just isn't the Moross sound I love the best. These works tend to be modern and anti-Romantic and Moross is best giving us their opposite with Westerns music with flowing themes and driving rhythms not this darker city music.
posted 01-29-2003 02:14 AM PT (US)

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