PS Classics Releases First Full Length Recording of THE GOLDEN APPLE Today

According to a listing on PS Classics' website, the first full length recording of THE GOLDEN APPLE is set for release today, May 19, 2015.

Composer Jerome Moross and librettist John Latouche's THE GOLDEN APPLE premiered in 1954. Its blend of American folklore and Greek myth, popular entertainment and high art, and musical comedy and operatic drama "stood Manhattan on its ear," winning the New York Drama Critics' Circle prize for Best Musical (the first Off-Broadway show to do so) and spawning the standard "Lazy Afternoon." Yet, sadly, this 135-minute through-sung musical was preserved only in a 48-minute LP, and after a short-lived transfer to Broadway, THE GOLDEN APPLE all but slipped into obscurity.

In November of 2014, the Lyric Stage of Irving, Texas, mounted a fully-staged revival of THE GOLDEN APPLE, featuring an orchestra of 38 and a 43-member cast, and PS Classics was there to preserve the score in its entirety.

Featuring nearly 90 minutes of previously unrecorded music and the complete libretto, PS Classics' deluxe two-disc cast recording of THE GOLDEN APPLE gives new life to a musical milestone of the American theatre.

TRACK LISTING:

Disc One

1. Overture
2. Nothing Ever Happens in Angel's Roost
3. Angel's Roost Has Its Situation
4. Mother Hare's Seance
5. My Love Is on the Way
6. The Heroes Come Home
7. It Was a Glad Adventure
8. Come Along Boys
9. It's the Going Home Together
10. Mother Hare's Prophecy
11. Good Is a Word That Fools Believe
12. It's the Going Home Together (Continuation)
13. Helen Is Always Willing
14. The Arrival of Paris
15. Let's Pay a Visit
16. The Picnic Table
17. Mother Hare's Return
18. An Impartial Judge
19. The Judgment of Paris
20. If You Select My Angel Food
21. I'll Teach You
22. The Loveliest Things in Life
23. It's a Fraud
24. Paris Visits Helen
25. Lazy Afternoon
26. The Departure for Rhododendron

Disc Two

1. My Picture in the Papers
2. Plumes on Her Hat
3. Form a Committee
4. The Prize Fight
5. Let's Go Home
6. Hector's Song
7. A Good Girl
8. Windflowers
9. Store-Bought Suit
10. Hurry! Hurry!
11. Calypso
12. Paradise Alley
13. Scylla and Charybdis
14. A Carefree Diversion
15. Goona-Goona
16. One Hell of a Bender
17. Doomed, Doomed, Doomed
18. Enough is Enough!
19. Circe
20. Ulysses' Soliloquy
21. Busy Little Sewing Bee
22. Penelope's Tirade
23. We've Just Begun

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