Shining Brow

Album by Daron Aric Hagen & Paul Muldoon & Robert Orth & Brenda Harris & Robert Frankenberry & Matthew Curran & Elaine Valby & Gilda Lyons & Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra & Buffalo Philharmonic Chorus & JoAnn Falletta

Shining Brow is an opera by American composer Daron Hagen, premiered in 1993. The work combines late-20th-century tonal and lyrical modernist writing with theatrical vocal lines and colourful orchestration to dramatise the life of architect Frank Lloyd Wright, and is an early large-scale entry in Hagen's operatic output that aligns with contemporary American opera's engagement with biographical subjects.

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Disc 1

  1. 1.
    Shining Brow: Prologue: So Much So, That Even Now I Flinch… (Sullivan, Waiter)
    4:39
  2. 2.
    Shining Brow: Prologue: So the Poetry of Architecture… (Draftsmen)
    1:04
  3. 3.
    Shining Brow, Act I, Scene 1: Some Are Destined to Stand… (Wright, Mamah, Edwin, Draftsmen)
    5:11
  4. 4.
    Shining Brow, Act I, Scene 1: The Music, So… the Music of Architecture… (Draftsmen)
    1:30
  5. 5.
    Shining Brow, Act I, Scene 1: Arietta: And Her Scent, Was It Musk? (Wright)
    3:23
  6. 6.
    Shining Brow, Act I, Scene 1: Aria: If Not for Me, Then for the Children's Sake… (Catherine, Wright)
    4:47
  7. 7.
    Shining Brow, Act I, Scene 1: Aria: Each Room Opens Into the Next, Catherine… (Wright, Sullivan)
    4:48
  8. 8.
    Shining Brow, Act I, Scene 1: Interlude: Sullivan Variations
    2:23
  9. 9.
    Shining Brow, Act I, Scene 1: When I Woke Up This Morning… (Workmen)
    3:18
  10. 10.
    Shining Brow, Act I, Scene 2: Far Be It from Me to Suggest… (Women, Workmen)
    2:56
  11. 11.
    Shining Brow, Act I, Scene 2: Arietta: Three Long Days and Three Long Nights… (Edwin, Workmen)
    2:26
  12. 12.
    Shining Brow, Act I, Scene 2: Aria: The Truth Is That My Mouth Is Full of Nails (Edwin)
    3:20
  13. 13.
    Shining Brow, Act I, Scene 2: They Say the Soul Weighs About the Same As… (Workmen, Mamah, Wright)
    3:00
  14. 14.
    Shining Brow, Act I, Scene 2: Melodrama: Be It Mud Hut, Mansion or Mosque… (Mamah, Wright, Edwin)
    1:35
  15. 15.
    Shining Brow, Act I, Scene 2: Trio: For Three Long Months I've Tried to Ease… (Mamah, Wright, Edwin)
    4:05
  16. 16.
    Shining Brow, Act I, Scene 2: Interlude: She Sweeps Us Off Our Feet …, "Hymn to Nature" (Chorus)
    2:00
  17. 17.
    Shining Brow, Act I, Scene 3: …back Into Earth and Air (Mamah, Chorus)
    0:46
  18. 18.
    Shining Brow, Act I, Scene 3: Frank, How Much Longer Must I Endure…? (Mamah)
    14:52

Disc 2

  1. 2.
    Shining Brow, Act II: Prelude
    1:33
  2. 3.
    Shining Brow, Act II: So Much, So Much, So Much, So Much, So… (Townspeople, Reporters, Guests)
    1:50
  3. 4.
    Shining Brow, Act II: Sextet: With a Tally Ho and View Halloo… (Reporters, Townswomen)
    3:11
  4. 5.
    Shining Brow, Act II: Aria: Ladies and Gentlemen… (Wright, Chorus)
    9:01
  5. 6.
    Shining Brow, Act II: Questions: Mister Wright! (Reporters, Townswomen)
    0:49
  6. 7.
    Shining Brow, Act II: Dialogue: Together, Mamah, We Will Take… (Wright, Mamah, Chorus)
    2:26
  7. 8.
    Shining Brow, Act II: Sextet: Just My Luck to End Up Here… (Reporters, Wright, Mamah)
    1:56
  8. 9.
    Shining Brow, Act II: Interlude: For When All's Said and Done, We'd Like to Know… (BarbershOp. Quartet)
    2:20
  9. 10.
    Shining Brow, Act II: Canape Variations: As the Guests Arrive At Taliesin… (Company)
    9:12
  10. 11.
    Shining Brow, Act II: Oration: I Am the Birch Stripped of Its Bark (Chef)
    1:08
  11. 12.
    Shining Brow, Act II: Interlude: The Fire
    2:28
  12. 13.
    Shining Brow, Act II, Scene: Frank. Lieber Meister… (Wright, Sullivan)
    4:56
  13. 14.
    Shining Brow, Act II: Duet: For Ten Long Years I've Tried to Heal… (Wright, Sullivan)
    4:09
  14. 15.
    Shining Brow, Act II: Eddie? Why So Crestfallen? So Forlorn? (Wright, Edwin, Sullivan)
    1:52
  15. 16.
    Shining Brow, Act II: Arietta: I Cry Out from the Slough of Despond… (Sullivan)
    2:11
  16. 17.
    Shining Brow, Act II: Out of the Depths We Heard Them Cry Again… (Townspeople, Wright)
    2:23
  17. 18.
    Shining Brow, Act II: For Ten Long Hours They Were Trapped… (Wright, Edwin)
    5:48
  18. 19.
    Shining Brow, Act II: Out of the Depths We Heard Them Cry Again… (Townpeople, Wright)
    1:44
  19. 20.
    Shining Brow, Act II: Arietta: Not Musk, Cedar Perhaps… (Wright)
    2:04
  20. 21.
    Shining Brow, Act II: Aria: He's Found! We've Found the Chef! (The Maid)
    2:18
  21. 22.
    Shining Brow, Act II: Not Maple. Pine - the Scent of a Plain Pine Box… (Wright, Chorus)
    2:37
  22. 23.
    Shining Brow, Act II: Aria: I Think of the Balsam Fir… (Wright)
    6:23

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