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Sir Arthur Drummond Bliss Composer
Miracle in the Gorbals, ballet in 1 scene for orchestra, Op.64, F.6a
Performances: 1
Tracks: 18
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The ballet for which this score was written is an unusually serious one, grappling, unusually for the ballet, with contemporary social issues. It is set in a hopeless slum, into which a Christ-like figure, "The Stranger" restores a girl suicide to life and is himself killed by a mob incited by a malignant government official. The suite comprises ten of the original fifteen numbers of the ballet. In the suite, predictably, music of a grim cast is offset by the visionary music associated with the Stranger and the promise he brings of deliverance, a promise which is not entirely quenched by the tragic ending. Unusually touching music. -
Miracle in the Gorbals, ballet in 1 scene for orchestra, Op.64, F.6aYear: 1944
Genre: Ballet
Pr. Instrument: Orchestra
- 1.Overture
- 2.The Street
- 3.The Girl Suicide
- 4.The Young Lovers
- 5.The Prostitute and the Boy
- 6.The Official
- 7.Discovery of the Suicide's Body
- 8.The Suicide's Body is brought in
- 9.The Stranger (Variations)
- 10.Dance of Deliverance
- 11.The Official and the Prostitute No.1
- 12.The Mother's Lullaby
- 13.Two 'Jolly' Couples
- 14.Official Leaves the Prostitute
- 15.The Whispering Campaign
- 16.The Official and the Prostitute No.2
- 17.The Killing of the Stranger
- 18.Coda (Molto sostenuto)
- 1.Overture
- 2.The Street
- 3.The Girl Suicide
- 7.Discovery of the Suicide's Body
- 8.The Suicide's Body is Brought In
- 9.The Stranger - X. Dance of Deliverance
- 12.Intermezzo
- 17.The Killing of the Stranger
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