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Music : Adding Machine: A Musical
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Adding Machine: A Musical from: P.S. CLASSICS List Price: $19.98 CD-Charts Price: $14.99 You Save: $4.99 (25%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0803607086527 Format: Cast Recording Label: P.S. CLASSICS Manufacturer: P.S. CLASSICS Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: P.S. CLASSICS Release Date: June 03, 2008 Studio: P.S. CLASSICS Sales Rank: 8811 MPN: 865 Disc 1: Related Items:
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 Rating:  - not as good as expectedAfter reading the posted reviews, I was looking forward to receiving the musical but was disappointed when it finally arrived. I found the music to be somewhat harsh and, while the premise was intriquing, it probably translated better on the stage... Rating:  - Welcome Joshua SchmidtA powerful score to a dark brooding musical. Performances are uniformly superb. Thanks to PS Classics for recordings this extraordinary piece of music theater. Keep an eye/ear on composer Joshua Schmidt! Rating:  - Grabs You!Let's face it: the story is not a pretty one. The music faithfully reproduces the characters' feelings. Dark, but a good ride. Rating: - Brilliant Progressive ComposingWhenever amazon recommends a new CD to me, I usually heed the call because their computers really seem to have my musical tastes nailed down pretty good. I'd say I end up liking 95% of what they recommend, while maybe 1 in 100 really end up hitting the mark dead-on. Well, Adding Machine is one of those rare choices. Who is this Joshua Schmidt guy anyway? Turns out that he's never written a musical before. Maybe that's why this score is so incredibly good. The piano work is nothing short of amazing - featuring rhythmically challenging passages that feel more at home on an Emerson Lake & Palmer album than in an off-Broadway production. And the use of deep, electronic, highly synthetic keyboard accompaniments mixed in with all ... Read More: Rating: - It all adds upOn this recording, the remarkable score comes off even better than it does in the theater. Joshua Schmidt employs a range of styles, from minimalism to 1930s pop, and to great effect in this harrowing work about a man named Mr. Zero who is replaced by an adding machine. Joel Hatch's nearly anti-musical vocal performance brings out the depth of the score as he croaks his way through an essentially untuneful or anti-tuneful life as underscored by the brilliant singing of the support ensemble, particularly Joe Farrell as the matricidal fellow inmate. Of course, the score can't capture the stunning break in visual style the stage production employs, but the last third of the music really goes many unexpected places, just as the characters do. Each ... Read More: |
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