Aldridge/ Boggs/ Florentine Opera Company - Elmer Gantry AEC Music for the harmonium

for the harmonium

this new thing split

Presenting the trumpeter at the helm of an excellent quintet with James Spaulding (alto saxophone & flute)

As harrowing as this is

These parts are spoken by Wolfgang Vater after the revised Picander version from 1744

Aldridge/ Boggs/ Florentine Opera Company - Elmer Gantry AEC Music for the harmoniumSet just before World War I, Sinclair Lewiss incendiary novel Elmer Gantry tells a story of old time religion, illicit romance and revenge. Robert Aldridge and Herschel Garfeins operatic adaptation is a marvelous amalgam of toe tapping accessibility (Opera News) full of hymns, gospel songs, marches and dance, evoking the period in a score which echoes Gershwin and Copland. This all American production combines a first rate cast of singers and a world