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Weiser: in a dark blue night

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Details

Composer
Alex Weiser
Artist
Annie Rosen, Lee Dionne, Yasmina Spiegelberg, Brigid Coleridge, Lun Li, Jordan Bak, Julia Yang, Sam
Format
CD
Label
Cantaloupe Music
Released
May 03, 2024
Catalog #
CA21197
UPC
713746319724

About

Alex Weiser's latest recording, the follow-up to his Pulitzer Prize-nominated and all the days were purple, is a love letter to New York City. Featuring acclaimed singer Annie Rosen with a seven-piece chamber ensemble, the album comprises two song cycles that explore the city from complementary perspectives. The first cycle, in a dark blue night, features five settings of Yiddish poetry written by newly arrived immigrants in the late 1800s and early 1900s. These poems reflect on the city at night — glowing, quiet, majestic.

It's followed by Coney Island Days, told through the recorded memories of Weiser's late grandmother. It features vivid, buoyant adventures about childhood in the bustling immigrant world of Coney Island in the 1930s and 40s — days at the beach, at the family's knish store, at the Russian baths and much more. "My grandmother grew up in Brooklyn spending summers in Coney Island, living with her family in a single room behind their knish store," Weiser says. "Hers was a multilingual world where she was taught English at school, but where her Yiddish-speaking parents could barely understand the language of their new land."

Together the two cycles celebrate the marvel and multiplicity of New York City, through a look at a little-explored chapter of its history.

Tracklist 12 tracks

  1. 1 Evening 03:40
    Track
    1
    Title
    Evening
    Duration
    03:40
    Composer
    Alex Weiser
    Performer
    Annie Rosen, Yasmina Spiegelberg, Brigid Coleridge, Lun Li, Jordan Bak, Julia Yang, Samuel Suggs, Lee Dionne
  2. 2 Broadway 04:33
    Track
    2
    Title
    Broadway
    Duration
    04:33
    Composer
    Alex Weiser
    Performer
    Annie Rosen, Yasmina Spiegelberg, Brigid Coleridge, Lun Li, Jordan Bak, Julia Yang, Samuel Suggs, Lee Dionne
  3. 3 Like the Stars in Heaven 01:59
    Track
    3
    Title
    Like the Stars in Heaven
    Duration
    01:59
    Composer
    Alex Weiser
    Performer
    Annie Rosen, Yasmina Spiegelberg, Brigid Coleridge, Lun Li, Jordan Bak, Julia Yang, Samuel Suggs, Lee Dionne
  4. 4 Golden Honey 03:53
    Track
    4
    Title
    Golden Honey
    Duration
    03:53
    Composer
    Alex Weiser
    Performer
    Annie Rosen, Yasmina Spiegelberg, Brigid Coleridge, Lun Li, Jordan Bak, Julia Yang, Samuel Suggs, Lee Dionne
  5. 5 Night Reflex 04:16
    Track
    5
    Title
    Night Reflex
    Duration
    04:16
    Composer
    Alex Weiser
    Performer
    Annie Rosen, Yasmina Spiegelberg, Brigid Coleridge, Lun Li, Jordan Bak, Julia Yang, Samuel Suggs, Lee Dionne
  6. 6 Coney Island 02:16
    Track
    6
    Title
    Coney Island
    Duration
    02:16
    Composer
    Alex Weiser
    Performer
    Annie Rosen, Yasmina Spiegelberg, Brigid Coleridge, Lun Li, Jordan Bak, Julia Yang, Samuel Suggs, Lee Dionne
  7. 7 Pennies 03:31
    Track
    7
    Title
    Pennies
    Duration
    03:31
    Composer
    Alex Weiser
    Performer
    Annie Rosen, Yasmina Spiegelberg, Brigid Coleridge, Lun Li, Jordan Bak, Julia Yang, Samuel Suggs, Lee Dionne
  8. 8 Knish Store 02:00
    Track
    8
    Title
    Knish Store
    Duration
    02:00
    Composer
    Alex Weiser
    Performer
    Annie Rosen, Yasmina Spiegelberg, Brigid Coleridge, Lun Li, Jordan Bak, Julia Yang, Samuel Suggs, Lee Dionne
  9. 9 Russian Bath 03:08
    Track
    9
    Title
    Russian Bath
    Duration
    03:08
    Composer
    Alex Weiser
    Performer
    Annie Rosen, Yasmina Spiegelberg, Brigid Coleridge, Lun Li, Jordan Bak, Julia Yang, Samuel Suggs, Lee Dionne
  10. 10 Mother 02:48
    Track
    10
    Title
    Mother
    Duration
    02:48
    Composer
    Alex Weiser
    Performer
    Annie Rosen, Yasmina Spiegelberg, Brigid Coleridge, Lun Li, Jordan Bak, Julia Yang, Samuel Suggs, Lee Dionne
  11. 11 Aunt Fannie 02:46
    Track
    11
    Title
    Aunt Fannie
    Duration
    02:46
    Composer
    Alex Weiser
    Performer
    Annie Rosen, Yasmina Spiegelberg, Brigid Coleridge, Lun Li, Jordan Bak, Julia Yang, Samuel Suggs, Lee Dionne
  12. 12 Ellis Island 03:14
    Track
    12
    Title
    Ellis Island
    Duration
    03:14
    Composer
    Alex Weiser
    Performer
    Annie Rosen, Yasmina Spiegelberg, Brigid Coleridge, Lun Li, Jordan Bak, Julia Yang, Samuel Suggs, Lee Dionne