GETTY Gordon (*1933)
Barbary Coast Orchestra - San Francisco Boys Chorus - Dennis Doubin (Dir) - Solisten: Lester Lynch, Nathan Granner, Melody Moore, Michael Jankosky, Bruce Rameker, Kevin Short, Kevin Korth, Samuel Faustine
PENTATONE
2 CD
114:22
Oper
2025-01-03
Goodbye, Mr. Chips (Oper in 2 Akten) (Gesamtaufnahme) Getty, Gordon Alma Mater, amnis pratum... (1. Akt) Chips was the soul of Brookfield. Chips, my good fellow... ...there was Kathie. Kathie, Kathie... Chips, darling, it's started. Somehow I walked the three miles back to campus... I suppose I was the first... Call-over: Wayne, Weaver, Webb... Sometimes the mood was somber... There had been talk... Poor Ralston! Kathie, you won't remember... Intermezzo (2. Akt) Ralston soon went on to better things. Sir, my father was... (Dream sequence) Chips caught bronchitis... Chips had retired from teaching... When the Armistice came in nineteen-eighteen... Mrs. Wickett also told me... Thank you, Miss Bridges. Well, you old ruffian... Alma mater - I thought I heard you...
GETTY Gordon (*1933)Barbary Coast Orchestra - San Francisco Boys Chorus - Dennis Doubin (Dir) - Solisten: Lester Lynch, Nathan Granner, Melody Moore, Michael Jankosky, Bruce Rameker, Kevin Short, Kevin Korth, Samuel FaustineLabel : PENTATONE
This opera tells the heart-warming story of a teacher at Brookfield, an all-boys English boarding school to which "Chips" dedicates most of his adult life. The opera chronicles Chips' story of love, loss and learning over his decades-long tenure at Brookfield.
