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Discover Sir Arthur Bliss: Miracle in the Gorbals; Music from "Things to Come"; Discourse for Orchestra by Christopher Lyndon-Gee, Queensland Symphony Orchestra released in 1999. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic.
Miracle in the Gorbals (1944) is a one-act ballet choreographed by Robert Helpmann to a story by Michael Benthall, with music by Arthur Bliss. The setting is the 1940s slums in the Gorbals area of Glasgow. It became a staple of the Royal Ballet, performed each season from 1944 to 1950 and receiving a revival in 1958.
This CD offers three first recordings, the most important of which is the complete ballet Miracle in the Gorbals, a sordid story of prostitution and suicide that might bring to mind a less musically adventurous, British lower-class version of Bartók’s The Miraculous Mandarin.
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Robert Helpmann’s one-act ballet, Miracle in the Gorbals, to a score by Arthur Bliss, is a milestone in British ballet, bringing to the stage a heady mix of realism, melodrama and religion that captured the imagination of a generation of ballet audiences.
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