Dawn at Dusk DVD 1996 London Sinfonietta / Directed by Simon Broughton / Conducted by Eric Stern / Dawn Upshaw evokes the spirit of American musicals / Royal Albert Hall / NVC Arts

UPC 5051442156423

REGION 2-5 NTSC DVD

MADE IN EU

AUDIO: English 2.0

SUBTITLES: English, German, Spanish,  French, German

Total Runtime: 71 minutes

Dawn Upshaw (born July 17, 1960) is an American soprano. The recipient of several Grammy Awards and Edison Prize-winning discs, she performs both opera and art song, and in repertoire from Baroque to contemporary. Many composers, including Henri Dutilleux, Osvaldo Golijov, John Harbison, Esa-Pekka Salonen, John Adams, and Kaija Saariaho, have written for her. In 2007, she was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship.

Upshaw came to international fame with her performance on the million-selling recording (1992), with David Zinman, of the Symphony No 3 by Henryk Górecki, known as the Symphony of Sorrowful Songs (Symfonia pieśni żałosnych).

She has premiered more than twenty-five new works, notably Henri Dutilleux's song-cycle Correspondances, and has embraced several pieces created for her, including the Grawemeyer Award-winning opera L’Amour de Loin by Kaija Saariaho, The Great Gatsby by John Harbison, the nativity oratorio El Niño by John Adams, and Osvaldo Golijov's highly acclaimed chamber opera Ainadamar and song cycle Ayre. In 2009 she premiered David Bruce's song cycle The North Wind was a Woman at the gala opening of the Chamber Music Society of the Lincoln Centre's season.

In addition to her operatic recordings, she has also sung the title role in the first complete recording of the score of Gershwin's Oh, Kay!.^[2] She has also recorded albums of songs by Vernon Duke and Rodgers and Hart. Upshaw was a guest of President of the United States Bill Clinton and Mrs. Clinton on the NBC special, Christmas in Washington. The BBC presented a prime-time telecast of her 1996 London Proms Concert, "Dawn at Dusk", in which she performed songs from the American musical theater. Her engagements with James Levine over the years led to a 1997 recording of Debussy songs.

Tracklist / Song list:

1. I Wish It So
2. The Saga Of Jenny
3. The Saga Of Jenny
4. He Was Too Good To Me
5. Do, Do, Do
6. There Won't Be Trumpets
7. Nobody's Heart/Little Girl Blue
8. Someone To Watch Over Me
9. Ballet At The Village Vortex (from 'Wond
10. Manhattan
11. It Never Entered My Mind
12. Why Can't I
13. I Could Write A Book
14. I Could Write A Book
15. Laurie's Song from 'Tenderland'
16. What More Do I Need?
17. Waltz from 'A Little Night Music'
18. Times Square from 'On The Town'
19. Lonely Town
20. I Feel Pretty
21. I Feel Pretty
22. Somewhere