Yeston Tom Sawyer: A Ballet In Three Acts CD

PS Classics continues it's collaboration with Tony Award winning composer-lyricist Maury Yeston (Nine: The Musical, Titanic, Death Takes a Holiday) with the premiere recording of Yeston's Tom Sawyer - a Ballet in Three Acts, adapted from Mark Twain's classic novel. Alastair Macaulay of the New York Times dubbed it "the first all-new, entirely American three-act ballet" and hailed the score as "energetic, robust, warm, deliberately na?ve (both ornery and innocent) in ways right for Twain. Mr. Yeston's tuneful music, with sonorities and harmonies that recall Copland, Barber and Prokofiev, ranges easily from comic to sinister, from Muff Potter's drunkenness to a rich celebration of the Mississippi River." Now, Martin West conducts the seventy-piece San Francisco Ballet Orchestra in this two-disc world premiere recording. Tom Sawyer - a Ballet in Three Acts is a thrilling theatrical work, and a must-have for any lover of distinctly American music.

1. Overturette, the Fence 2. Way Down South 3. Tom and the Town 4. Lazy Day 5. Off to School 6. In the Classroom 7. Tom and Becky 8. Huck Finn 9. Looking West 10. Games and Competitions 11. To the Mississippi 12. Pirates 13. Storm 14. Funeral and Salvation, Coda 15. Muff Potter - Duet for Man and Flask 16. A Conspiracy 17. Dance of the Fireflies 18. March of the Goblins 19. Ghosts 20. The Sprites' Circus 21. The Stone Angel 22. A Murder 23. A Death 24. Requiem for Doc 25. Overture to Act 3, Looking West 26. The Missouri Main Street Parade 27. The Prosecution 28. Tom's Testimony 29. Praise and Thanks 30. Pinwheels 31. The Picnic 32. Lost in the Cave 33. Dance of True Love 34. Pinwheels (Reprise) 35. Saved 36. To the Mississippi (Reprise) 37. The Great Mississippi