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Broadway Cast Recordings on Tap for 'Aladdin,' 'If/Then' and 'Bullets over Broadway'
All Quiet on the Western Front: Nancy Van de Vate's Opera Gets Full, Middling New York Performance for Memorial Day
'All Quiet on the Western Front' had a most fitting presentation the Saturday before Memorial Day, in the centennial year of the outbreak of World War I. Nancy Van de Vate's opera, based on the famous novel by Erich Maria Remarque, premiered in Osnabrück, Germany in 2003 (followed by a partial performance at New York's Opera Vox showcase.) 21 Sun Ra Albums Released from Archive to iTunes for His Centenary, Michael D. Anderson and Irwin Chusid Curate
Does this glut of posthumous Ra releases pose a bit of an existential dilemma for true Ra fans, then? Probably. All the same, just in time for the Sun Ra centenary, we now have 21 new album of music on iTunes.