Solo Concert Info
Circle
Ricky Ian Gordon
CAST:
Darius de Haas
Jonita Lattimore
Adrienne Danrich
Sheila Ramsey
Jay Pierce
"Though Gordon is considered a rising star of American musical theater, Only Heaven is not a musical. But it is a stage work, 29 songs set to the writings of Harlem Renaissance poet Langston Hughes. Sharp and dissonant at times but also meltingly beautiful, powerfully sung, and building to a strong climax. Hughes's jazzy verse works well with Gordon's frequently jazzy music, especially when it's sung by Darius de Haas. "
- Editor's Review, Amazon.com
world premiere recording of The Muse Machine's presentation, produced on P.S. Classics, October 2002
"Opera meets the blues in the voice of Darius de Haas. Particularly lovely are the renditions of 'Heaven,' which leaps with the refrain 'happiness is everywhere'; and 'Love Song for Antonia,' in which a man is transported by the intensity of his feeling."
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"Heaven"
- LA Times
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