Philip Seward, Natalie Arduino, Amy Becker & Patrice Boyd
Les Dames à trois...et piano
© 2007 Philip Seward (877319001864)
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A light-hearted trilogy of comic, one-act operas featuring a woman singer and a man in a supporting role while playing the piano.
tracks
- 1 Disc One: It Was a Night Like Any Other
- 2 Disc One: If Music Be the Food of Love, Play On
- 3 Disc One: Any Suspects?
- 4 Disc One: Under the Greenwood Tree
- 5 Disc One: Tell Me About the Suspects...
- 6 Disc One: How About Pick?
- 7 Disc One: What’s Your Relationship...
- 8 Disc One: So, He’s Caught This Poor Dame
- 9 Disc One: You Know, For a Dick
- 10 Disc One: What Do You Mean Do I Believe in Fate?
- 11 Disc One: Sigh No More, Ladies, Sigh No More
- 12 Disc One: Cinderella Had Her Ball...
- 13 Disc One: Why Am I a Princess With No Show?
- 14 Disc One: Excuse Me...
- 15 Disc One: So, Do You Do Musicals?
- 16 Disc One: Rick, I’m Trusting You to Develop
- 17 Disc One: Conjure Me a Tale, You Handyman
- 18 Disc One: I Could Have Been a Frog!
- 19 Disc One: I’m Back!
- 20 Disc One: Then You Find a Flute
- 21 Disc One: I Would Not Deny You
- 22 Disc One: Rick...yes...
- 23 Disc One: but This Rough Magic, I Here Abjure
- 24 Disc One: We Should Be in “b” Major...
- 25 Disc Two: My Boyfriend Plays the Piano!
- 26 Disc Two: Play the Piano, the Full Eighty-eight!
- 27 Disc Two: Now If He Would Just Marry Me
- 28 Disc Two: in the Magic of Midsummer
- 29 Disc Two: Once Again Tonight I’m Taking Food
- 30 Disc Two: Richard’s Solo
- 31 Disc Two: For a Year I’ve Known Sarah
- 32 Disc Two: Richard, I Let Myself In
- 33 Disc Two: Richard, Give Me Your Hand
- 34 Disc Two: Thank You For the Dinner, Sarah
- 35 Disc Two: Oh, Oh, Oh, Oh, La, La, Ah!
- 36 Disc Two: Triple Strings, How They Sing
- 37 Disc Two: in the Magic of Midsummer
- 38 Disc Two: Richard, Let’s Go Out Tonight...
- 39 Disc Two: He’s Thinking of Me!
- 40 Disc Two: I Knew He’d Get to Me!
- 41 Disc Two: Lyric Schmyric
- 42 Disc Two: At Last He Thinks of His Star!
- 43 Disc Two: I Will Give Voice to His Music
- 44 Disc Two: I’ve Got It!
- 45 Disc Two: Maybe Harmony’s the Key
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Conceived as a set of three comic one-act operas, Les Dames à trois...et Piano was written for the three women who appear in them with the composer playing a supporting character from the piano.
The first, Piano Detective takes a ‘film-noire’ approach to a mystery involving the theft of a cadence. The second, Piano Princess, features a princess seeking her own Broadway. Dismayed at the tales of all the other princesses she knows, Cinderella, Snow White, Belle, and Aurora who have their names in marquees all over Times Square, she seeks out Rick, a general all around fairytale handyman, to aid her in her quest to bring about the perfect fairytale. The third, ...And Piano Make Three, is about Sarah and her boyfriend, Richard, who plays the piano. She met him in Central Park while he was exercising his portable Casio keyboard and has been in love with him ever since. However, now that it is a year later, she is beginning to wonder how she can get his attention. He never stops playing the piano — not even long enough to take her to the Rainbow Room and propose. She soon sets out to use every means at her disposal to take on the piano.
The one acts use a variety of musical styles and move from the warm mezzo of Piano Detective to the soaring coloratura of Sarah as she engages in duets with her rival, the grand piano. Thus, the woman’s voice becomes increasingly higher from act to act. In addition to the casting, several other commonalities bind the three acts together. In each case, the man is named a variation of Richard (Dick and Rick); two common musical motives presented in each act; quotes from the works of William Shakespeare; a use of film genre — first, film noir, second, fantasy, and third, romantic comedy; music which arises comedically out of the situation; and, finally, a whimsical, “over-the-top” focus on some aspect of music. Each work can play separately or as a trilogy with the Epilogue (which takes place in the mind of a composer).