Ricky Ian Gordon's Orpheus and Euridice, based on the tragic Greek myth of eternally lost love, will be preserved on CD by Ghostlight Records.
The work will be recorded in late April.
Orpheus and Euridice was first seen in October of 2005 at the Rose Theatre at Jazz at Lincoln Center.
Gordon "retells the classic Greek myth as a song cycle which blends classical music, opera, and pop," stated press notes on the show, which featured Elizabeth
Futral as Euridice with clarinetist Todd Palmer as
Orpheus in a production directed and choreographed by Doug Varone.Gordon is best known for his musical My Life with Albertine. Based on Proust's In Search of Lost Time, it ran at Playwrights Horizons in 2003. Gordon's work can be heard on two CDs; Only Heaven features his settings of Langston Hughes poems, while Bright-Eyed Joy comprises some of the Hughes pieces as well as settings to the words of Dorothy Parker, Edna St. Vincent Millay and others. A recording of his Dream True, based on Peter Ibbetson, will be released by PS Classics this spring. It will feature Victoria Clark,
Jason Daniely,
brian d'Arcy James, Jeff McCarthy,
Michael McElroy, Jessica Molaskey,
Kelli O'Hara, and Clark Thorell.
In addition, Carl Fischer Music has released the score of
Orpheus and Euridice, as well as the composer's "The Piano Music of Ricky Ian Gordon" and "Songs for Our Time" (with an introduction by
Audra McDonald, who has frequently interpreted his songs).
For more information on Ghostlight Records, the more traditional show music branch of Sh-K-Boom Records, visit
www.sh-k-boom.com/ghostlight.
