Arlington Sons
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Arlington Sons Words & Music by Scott Eyerly
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Arlington Sons Words & Music by Scott Eyerly
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Vocalists: David Pittsinger, Richard Pittsinger
Pianist: Fred Lassen
Cellist: Eric Bartlett
Arlington Sons | The Story
In 2011 Broadway and Metropolitan Opera star David Pittsinger commissioned composer and librettist Scott Eyerly to create a unique musical score for father and son.
Pittsinger envisioned a work that would showcase him and his son Richard (a talented soloist and graduate of New York’s esteemed Saint Thomas Choir School) and honor his late father, a U.S. Army Veteran who served as a distinguished Tomb Guard at Arlington National Cemetery.
Lyrical and expressive, Arlington Sons illuminates a universal experience—the changing of the guard between generations—in a uniquely American context. The 12-minute duet, inspired by true and reverent moments in time for the Pittsingers, is believed to be the first-ever musical work written for a real life father and son.
Scott Eyerly . Composer
David Gilbert . Conductor
Manhattan School of Music
Opera Orchestra
"How refreshing: a shapely, sensuous new American opera with a well-written libretto."
American Record Guide
Act 1:
1. Opening and Scene
2. Hepzibah: Tell me you know me
3. Phoebe: Good day
4. Hepzibah: Look in the mirror
5. Phoebe: There once was a king
6. Interlude and Scene
7. Jaffrey: Well, well
8. Jaffrey: I try to be like the rose
9. Jaffrey: Why, Hepzibah
10. Hepzibah: The mirror
11. Chorus: O God wth grace
12. Holgrave: Are you all right
Act 2:
1. Opening and Scene
2. Hepzibah: Why should he
3. Phoebe: Clifford, where are you?
4. Clifford: How clear
5. Quartet: Lovely is the breeze
6. Clifford: Happy
7. Holgrave: You are right
8. Chorus: Who is the man
9. Opening and Scene
10. Jaffrey: Here it happened
11. Clifford: We shall discuss
12. Voices: Jaffrey? Jaffrey?
13. Reverend: I now pronounce
14. Let us take