Treemonisha

Album by Scott Joplin & The Paragon Ragtime Orchestra & Rick Benjamin

Treemonisha is an opera by American composer Scott Joplin, completed in 1910. The work blends ragtime rhythms with late-Romantic and early twentieth-century operatic forms, reflecting Joplin's intent to present African-American musical idioms within a full-length staged composition and occupying a distinctive place in his output and in early twentieth-century American music history.

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Disc 1

  1. 1.
    Act 1. Overture
    7:29
  2. 2.
    Act 1. The Bag of Luck (Zodzetrick, Monisha, Ned, Treemonisha, Remus)
    8:04
  3. 3.
    Act 1. The Corn-Huskers (Treemonisha, Chorus)
    0:45
  4. 4.
    Act 1. We're Goin' Around (Andy, Chorus)
    2:22
  5. 5.
    Act 1. The Wreath (Treemonisha, Lucy, Monisha, Chorus)
    1:46
  6. 6.
    Act 1. The Sacred Tree (Monisha)
    5:25
  7. 7.
    Act 1. Surprised (Treemonisha, Chorus)
    0:18
  8. 8.
    Act 1. Treemonisha's Bringing Up (Monisha, Treemonisha, Chorus)
    4:40
  9. 9.
    Act 1. Good Advice (Parson Alltalk, Chorus)
    5:05
  10. 10.
    Act 1. Confusion (Monisha, Lucy, Ned, Remus, Chorus)
    2:37
  11. 11.
    Act 2. Superstition (Simon, Chorus)
    3:34
  12. 12.
    Act 2. Treemonisha in Peril (Simon, Zodzetrick, Luddud, Cephus, Chorus)
    2:49
  13. 13.
    Act 2. Frolic of the Bears (Chorus)
    2:05
  14. 14.
    Act 2. The Wasp-Nest (Simon, Cephus, Chorus)
    1:16
  15. 15.
    Act 2. The Rescue (Treemonisha, Remus)
    1:25
  16. 16.
    Act 2. We Will Rest Awhile (Male quartet)
    1:29
  17. 17.
    Act 2. Going Home (Remus, Treemonisha, Foreman, Chorus)
    0:39
  18. 18.
    Act 2. Aunt Dinah Has Blowed de Horn (Chorus)
    1:21

Disc 2

  1. 2.
    Act 3. Prelude to Act 3
    4:16
  2. 3.
    Act 3. I Want to See My Child (Duet: Ned and Monisha)
    2:19
  3. 4.
    Act 3. Treemonisha's Return (Monisha, Remus, Ned, Treemonisha, Andy, Zodzetrick, Luddud, Chorus)
    3:43
  4. 5.
    Act 3. Wrong Is Never Right (Remus, Octet Chorus)
    5:33
  5. 6.
    Act 3. Abuse (Andy, Treemonisha, Chorus)
    0:28
  6. 7.
    Act 3. When Villains Ramble Far and Near (Ned)
    5:11
  7. 8.
    Act 3. Conjurers Forgiven (Treemonisha, Chorus)
    1:38
  8. 9.
    Act 3. We Will Trust You as Our Leader (Treemonisha, Chorus)
    8:13
  9. 10.
    Act 3. A Real Slow Drag (Treemonisha, Lucy, Chorus)
    5:49
  10. 11.
    Appendix. Bowing Music: Themes from the Opera in One-Step Tempo (2003) -- Rick Benjamin
    2:02
  11. 12.
    Appendix. Libretto Preface (ready by Scott Joplin's closest living relative, Grandniece Mrs. LaErma White of Texarkana, Arkansas)
    6:32

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