From the Heart of the Port City [Explicit Lyrics]

Katherine Hobgood, SB Magazine, December 2002
The album is full of Shreveport pride...there are fun songs as well as serious ones...Socially conscience lyrics...

Product Description
Seasoned Veteran Producers and Musicians Stanley Robinson, Phillip Bertrand, Ron Hardy, Earl Williams and Sonny Gaston comprise The Hot Sauce Production Team. They are combined with Shreveport’s hottest up and coming underground rap artists to bring the Shreveport street life experience to this 18 song compilation CD. The Heart of the Port City features Shreveport’s most flavorful rappers Big Poppa, Flu Flu, Lil Dill, CC Loc, Butterball, DC, CK Mon aka Versatile, The Soldier Boyz (Bay-B, Mr. Wootay and Mr Baw Baw), Pyqkle Head, Mon and Hoo Doo Slim. The CD also includes the hot peppered R&B tracks by singers Tic-Tac as well as Ron Hardy aka Tarumbae & Friends, featuring Charles McCray.

From the Heart of the Port City,Various Artists,Red Beans & Rice,Rap,Rap & Hip-Hop

Average customer rating: A good collection A Musician of Great Dignity and Style Passed the "Opera in English" test with flying colors.

Great Operatic Arias Manufacturer: Chandos ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by Britten | Britten, Sir Benjamin | ( B ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Gounod | Gounod, Charles | ( G ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Korngold, Erich Wolfgang | ( K ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Lehár, Franz | ( L ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus | ( M ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Strauss Jr., Johann | ( S ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Tchaikovsky | Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilyich | ( T ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Thomas | Thomas, Ambroise | ( T ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Verdi | Verdi, Giuseppe | ( V ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Wagner | Wagner, Richard | ( W ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Rossini | Rossini, Gioacchino | ( R ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Korngold, Erich Wolfgang | Composers | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Allen, Thomas | ( A ) | Featured Performers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music London Philharmonic Orchestra | ( L ) | Featured Performers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music Romances | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Modern & 20th Century | Historical Periods | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Romantic (c.1820-1910) | Historical Periods | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music General | Arias | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music English | Languages | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music French | Languages | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music German | Languages | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Italian | Languages | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Russian | Languages | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Operettas | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Similar Items: A Treasury of English Song Songs My Father Taught Me More Songs My Father Taught Me On the Idle Hill of Summer: Song Cycles & Songs by Vaughan Williams, Butterworth, Quilter, Peel Great Baritone Arias ASIN: B0006SGF1Y Release Date: 2005-02-22

Tracks:

1. 'Even Bravest Heart My Swell'
2. 'I Am The Barber Everyone Wants, I Am!
3. 'Must I Be Made To Suffer'
4. 'Look Down, Oh Gentle Evening Star'
5. 'You Have My Love And My Devotion
6. 'Oh Wine, Deliver Me From Sadness' - Geoffrey Mitchell Choir
7. 'Marriage Is Sacred' - I Was Right To Be So Suspicious'
8. 'Turning My Gaze Upon This Proud Assembly'
9. 'O Nadir, Best Of Friends'
10. Billy In The Darbies
11. 'Though I'm Somewhat Out Of Practice' - Janice Watson
12. 'Hello, Here's A Soldier Bold' - Janice Watson
13. 'I Wonder What He'll Think Of Me!'
14. 'In Visions, Illusions'

Customer Reviews:

A good collection.......2007-05-14

Unlike the huge names, collections by Allen are not many - plenty of his opera performances are recorded, but there are only a few collections. My voice teacher recommended I listen to him to understand better how to deliver power without weight, something we've been working on. Yes, it's all in English, but that's fine, and the quality of Allen's instrument comes through very well.

A Musician of Great Dignity and Style.......2005-07-27

Sir Thomas Allen is one of the enduring baritones who has been able to move throughout the operatic repertoire and the recital stage with intelligence, informed characterization, and immaculate musicianship. To have a recording of some of the roles he has inhabited at this point in his career is a gift (this CD was recorded in 2003). To have the added challenge of retaining the stature of the roles while sung in English translations at the request of Chandos is a credit to his abilities and communicative powers.

English is a difficult language to make musical, though saying that abruptly is countered by the fact that some of the most beautiful operas in history are by Benjamin Britten, a composer who truly understood his native tongue and kept it as fluid as the soaring melodies he wrote, as Thomas Allen proves here in 'Billy in the Darbies' from Britten's 'Billy Budd'. It is the other major arias from Korngold to Wagner to Tchaikovsky to Rossini, Bizet, Mozart, Gounod, Verdi, Thomas, Strauss, and Lehar that Allen proves that English translations do not detract at all from the performances!

For those purists who prefer opera sung in the original language (and for those who don't even need supertitles in the opera house!), then this recording may provide a temporary barrier to respecting Allen's singing. But once caught up in the ease with which he moves from style to style and comedy to drama, it is hard not to relinquish old preferences and not be wholly impressed with the beauty of the voice and the warmth and dignity of this fine musician. Highly recommended. Grady Harp, July 05

Passed the "Opera in English" test with flying colors........2005-07-04

For me, the test here was Figaro's Cavatina, from Rossini's Barber of Seville - sung in English, as is this entire compilation of 14 operatic favorites, sung by baritone Sir Thomas Allen. Could he pull it off? Could Chandos pull it off? The answer is an unequivocal, unqualified yes! The secret in singing classics in English, that were written and scored in another language, is in three things: pacing, vocal agility and appreciation for "fit", and what greater test for tongue and timing than Figaro? When you listen to this one song, you will understand why Chandos and its benefactor, Sir Peter Moores have such a passion for their Opera in English series. Sir Allen's voice is a matured unmistakably settled baritone voice that contains a lifetime's worth of understanding of the music and words he imparts through his magnificent delivery. For example, when he sings, Tchaikovsky's "You have my love and devotion" from The Queen of Spades, he delivers a smooth and deeply emotional rendition that lacks nothing in translation. Wagner's "Turning my gaze upon this proud assembly", from Tannhäuser is another example of how fine, full orchestration behind a seasoned voice that waxes eloquent with every phrase, can create a mood of relaxed familiarity with word and music, that may be lacking when sung in another tongue. Great Operatic Arias, serves up a smorgasbord of tunes that are familiar, made more so by the care and attention given to creating a place for the Opera in English series in every home library. The mood here is romantic, relaxed and with few exceptions consistent throughout. If you haven't heard Opera in English, this might be a good way to start, given the fact that the listener gets to sample how different composers might sound in other than German, Italian or French. You might be surprised to discover that when done with care, as is obviously the case here, the sound is about as good as it gets. As an added bonus, the booklet that comes with the CD is full of pictures, libretto in English, and biography that gives us a good insight into history of the singer and his identifying rolls.

Average customer rating:

From the Heart of the Port City Various Artists Manufacturer: Red Beans & Rice ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | International | Styles | Music General | Rap & Hip-Hop | Styles | Music General | International | Indie Music | Stores | Music General | Rap & Hip-Hop | Indie Music | Stores | Music ASIN: B0000860F1 Release Date: 2002-12-28

Tracks:

1. City of Gs
2. Come Up On It
3. Loud Pipes
4. Damn Damn
5. Get Off My Block
6. How I Feel
7. Im Ghetto
8. Unborn Seed
9. Soulja Boyz Theme
10. Bow Down
11. Whatcha Gonna Do
12. State Of Emergency
13. Stay With Me
14. Love Letter
15. Shake It Fass
16. We are Family
17. RIP (Oh Why)
18. I Thank God

Product Description

Seasoned Veteran Producers and Musicians Stanley Robinson, Phillip Bertrand, Ron Hardy, Earl Williams and Sonny Gaston comprise The Hot Sauce Production Team. They are combined with Shreveports hottest up and coming underground rap artists to bring the Shreveport street life experience to this 18 song compilation CD. The Heart of the Port City features Shreveports most flavorful rappers Big Poppa, Flu Flu, Lil Dill, CC Loc, Butterball, DC, CK Mon aka Versatile, The Soldier Boyz (Bay-B, Mr. Wootay and Mr Baw Baw), Pyqkle Head, Mon and Hoo Doo Slim. The CD also includes the hot peppered R&B tracks by singers Tic-Tac as well as Ron Hardy aka Tarumbae & Friends, featuring Charles McCray.

Pop Music:

1. Gathering of Spirits
2. Greia [Import]
3. Homenaje a 10 años [Explicit Lyrics]
4. I Grandi Successi Originali [Import]
5. I Grandi Successi Originali [Import]
6. I Grandi Successi Originali [Import]
7. Il Treno Va [Import]
8. Ilegal Imoral Ou Engorda 76 [Import]
9. Kaccheri: A Concert of South Indian Classical Music [Import]
10. Kramgoa Latar 2001 [Import]

Pop Music