The Queen's Garden
ASIN: B00000GVX7
Track Listings
| 1. Prologue |
| 2. Outrigger Regatta |
| 3. Falling in Love |
| 4. High School |
| 5. Westside Warriors |
| 6. The Riot |
| 7. The Teacher |
| 8. Rosie |
| 9. Cut the Source |
| 10. San Francisco |
| 11. Cutting Loose |
| 12. Back on the Westside |
| 13. Shoot-out |
| 14. Epilogue |
Editorial Reviews
Amazon.com
This soul-stirring coming-of-age disc by Brenda Wong Aoki shouldn't be missed by fans of spoken word. The first-person love story of Brenda Jean--a girl of uniquely mixed heritage (Asian, Mexican, and Scottish)--is backed by a melting jazz soundtrack courtesy of bassist-composer Mark Izu. The west side of Los Angeles is the setting here, but it's Aoki's autobiographical narrative that steals each scene. Her love for Kali, a boy descended from Hawaiian royalty, takes its own course, and Aoki's jazz inspired pacing makes this 71-minute disc ebb and flow with a power all its own. --Jason Verlinde
Product Description
The first spoken word epic with jazz. A love story set amongst L.A's urban tribes, between a good girl who's all "chop suey" (Chinese, Japanese, Spanish and Scots) and a proud boy going bad descended from Hawaiian royalty.Based on a true story.
The Queen's Garden
The Queen's Garden,Brenda Wong Aoki,Mark Izu
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Come, Gentle Night: Music of Shakespeare's World
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ASIN: B0000478S3 Release Date: 2000-01-25 |
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Ensemble Galilei's music is lilting, elegant and unexpected!.......2002-11-29
beautiful.......2001-01-22
Excellent!.......2001-01-04
It will bring about many gentle nights.......2000-11-22
Visualizing Beauty.......2000-08-20
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The King's Noyse, dir. David Douglass: Royal Delight: 17th Century Ballads & Dances
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The Ultimate Divas Album
Gioachino Rossini , Giuseppe Verdi , Alfredo Catalani , Umberto Giordano , Amilcare Ponchielli , Giacomo Puccini , Vincenzo Bellini , Georges Bizet , Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , Richard Wagner , Modena Community Theater Orchestra , Royal Opera House Orchestra Covent Garden , Monte Carlo National Opera Orchestra , National Philharmonic Orchestra , Saint Cecilia Academy Orchestra , Wiener Philharmoniker , London Symphony Orchestra , London Philharmonic Orchestra , Riccardo Chailly , Sir Georg Solti , Henry Lewis , Fausto Cleva , Fernando Previtali , Herbert von Karajan , Richard Bonynge , Hans Knappertsbusch , Cecilia Bartoli , Renée Fleming , Angela Gheorghiu , Marilyn Horne , Renata Tebaldi , Frank Lopardo , Zinka Milanov , Joan Sutherland , London Symphony Chorus , Leontyne Price , Montserrat Caballé , and John Alldis Choir Manufacturer: Decca ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
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Popular Tunes in 17th Century England /Broadside Band * Barlow
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Amazon.com
The recordings that Giulini made with the Chicago Symphony between 1969 and 1976 document an extraordinary partnership and remain among the finest of the conductor's career. Giulini's Mahler First is more lyric than most, yet with enough energy to satisfy Mahlerians; the last movement a tribute to the conductor's unerring sense of orchestral balances even in crushing climaxes. His rendition of the orchestral movements of Berlioz's "dramatic symphony" Romeo and Juliet excels in its poetry, the warmly caressing Chicago strings in the Love Scene irresistible. The Beethoven Seventh is an eloquent blend of the Dionysian and Apollonian approaches to this "dance symphony," with glowing horns, driving rhythms and lovely solo turns. Giulini's later remakes of the Beethoven and other works in the set often were soporific; here, he's on target. This Bruckner Ninth, for example, is grandly rhetorical but full of passion. The Brahms Fourth is a highly personal account, with a ravishing slow movement, while the Stravinsky ballet suites reveal the Chicagoans at their most refined; the Firebird exquisitely colored, Petrushka, amazingly precise. Classic recordings, well transferred; a bargain that shouldn't be missed. --Dan Davis
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Tchaikovsky Experience
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ASIN: B0000024FG Release Date: 1997-11-11 |
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An absolutly amazing artist!.......2000-05-15
Unexpected pleasures.......2000-01-22
This beautifully planned recital provides extracts from every one of them - even an abandoned one (Undine). Four singers: two sopranos, tenor and baritone perform a selection of arias and duets. Inessa Galante delivers an engrossing and very emotional performance of the most familiar item here, the Letter Scene from 'Eugene Onegin', she enters fully into Tatyana's world. She is just as good in an extended duet from Tchaikovsky's last opera 'Iolanta', partnered ably by tenor Alexander Fedin - and she darkens her voice convincingly for a plangent account of Joan of Arc's aria from 'The Maid of Orleans' - traditionally mezzo territory. Marina Shaguch (familiar from many recent Kirov Opera recordings)has a brighter timbre, which suits Undine's delectable song, and possibly the most ravishing aria on the disc, that from 'Vakula the Smith', a rustic comic opera that cries out for a modern recording - it is almost totally unknown and contains some of Tchaikovsky's most delicious music. She is less involving in the final scene and deranged lullaby from 'Mazeppa', which doesn't pack the necessary punch here, though it is beautifully sung. Alexander Fedin is less consistent, best in the familiar excerpts from 'The Queen of Spades'. Sergei Leiferkus has the least to do, but does it well, though his account of Yeletsky's aria from 'The Queen of Spades' does not bear comparison with Pavel Lisitsian's classic account. But it is the wealth of unfamiliar music here that counts, and with sparkling support from the Royal Opera House orchestra and Neemi Jarvi, this disc is a winner, and should be essential listening for every Tchaikovsky lover.
Don't be put off by the most awful jacket design - a green tinged Sloane-y young gel(presumably Tatiana)who looks as if she's strayed in from a photoshoot for 'Brides' magazine. Ridiculous,inappropriate and unimaginative, but we all know better than to judge a CD by its cover, don't we?
Inessa is a big star. I love her voice!.......1999-08-31
She's a famous star of Latvian Opera and a well-known european artist.
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Manufacturer: RCA ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000003FFT Release Date: 1993-09-14 |
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