Fire Water Paper: A Vietnam Oratorio is a large scale orchestral oratorio composed by Elliot Goldenthal, commissioned by the Pacific Symphony in 1993 for the 20th Anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War.
| Fire Water Paper: A Vietnam Oratorio | ||||
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| Studio album by | ||||
| Released | 1996 | |||
| Recorded | April 1995 | |||
| Studio | Orange County Performing Arts Center, Costa Mesa, California | |||
| Genre | Classical, avant-garde | |||
| Length | 65:43 | |||
| Label | Sony Classical | |||
| Producer | Steven Epstein | |||
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| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| Soundtrack-Express |   link |
| The New York Times | Reasonable |
| Wired | Favourable |
The album
editIt was performed publicly and recorded in mid 1995 and released commercially in 1996. Yo-Yo Ma performed Solo Cello on "Part I"; other performers include: The Pacific Chorale & Children's Chorus, the Ngan-Khoi Vietnamese Children's Choir, Ann Panagulias and James Maddalena; it was conducted by Carl St. Clair.
It is not considered an archetypal oratorio as it doesn't tell a story so much as it brings together many different poems and words of praise, the latter adding a sort of religious aspect in the form of requiem.[1]
Track listing
edit- Part I: Offertorium (32:08)
- Part II: Scherzo (giằng co) (14:14)[2]
- Part III: Hymn (19:19)
Crew and performers
edit- Music Composed by Elliot Goldenthal
- Produced by Steven Epstein
- Performed by Yo-Yo Ma, Solo Cello (Part I)
- Ann Panagulias, Soprano & James Maddalena, Baritone
- Pacific Chorale & Children's Chorus
- Ngan-Khoi Vietnamese Children's Chorus
- Pacific Symphony Orchestra, Conducted by Carl St. Clair
- Engineer: Richard King
References
edit- ^ "Fire Paper Water: A Vietnam Oratorio – Elliot Goldenthal". Archived from the original on 2007-08-10. Retrieved 2007-08-26.
- ^ Gramophone – Volume 74 887 1996 p. 81 "A pupil of John Corigliano and Aaron Copland, Brooklyn-born Elliot Goldenthal (b. 1954) is perhaps best-known for his highly ... This feverish dance of death (which bears the subtitle giang co or "tug-of-war") utilizes a far-ranging assortment of documents – from Virgil, Tacitus and Cicero to terms used in the Vietnam conflict ..."
External links
edit- https://web.archive.org/web/20070817004514/http://goldenthal.filmmusic.com/concert/firewaterpaper/index.html – The page for the album on the composer's website.