#3 of Three Completions of Songs Begun by Marc Blitzstein
completion of 1938 musical sketch for voice & piano, 7/95
recorded by Gregory Mercer & Leonard Lehrman,
Original Cast Records OC 4441,
and published in The Marc Blitzstein Songbook, v.2
(Boosey & Hawkes, 2001)
#1 of Three Completions of Songs Begun by Marc Blitzstein
completion of musical sketch for voice & piano
begun by Marc Blitzstein to his lyrics from
No For An Answer Act II Scene 5
first presented 4/6/95 Madison WI Sonneck Society
first public performance 6/11/95 LICA concert,
Center Moriches Free Library
recorded by Leonard Lehrman, Orig Cast Records OC 4441
published in Marc Blitzstein Songbook, v. 1
(Boosey & Hawkes, 1999)
3-act opera (2 hr. 45 min.) begun but left unfinished by
Marc Blitzstein (1959-1963)
commissioned by Ford Foundation,
optioned by Metropolitan Opera, completed 1978-Feb. 2001
published by Theodore Presser;
6 excerpts (asterisked) published by Boosey & Hawkes;
first complete performances in concert with piano:
Aug. 17, 18, 19, 2001, White Barn Theatre, Westport CT
Excerpts performable separately:
*1. Sacco’s Act II Aria, “With a Woman to Be” (4’40”-7’03”)
*2. Sacco-Rosa Act II Duet (2’04”)
*3. Vanzetti’s Last Statement (3’07”)
*4. Vanzetti’s First Aria (2’29”)
*5. Sacco’s “The Whole Shoe” Aria (5’11”)
6. Sacco-Mrs. Evans Duet
7. Sacco-Rosa-Vanzetti Trio (1’45”-2’00”),
also performable as Sacco-Rosa Duet,
music based on Blitzstein’s “The Hills of Amalfi”
*8. Mary Donovan’s Aria,
inspired by “Hymn” from Blitzstein’s Juno
9. Act I Quartet Finale
music derived in part from “Have Yourself a Night”
from Blitzstein’s Reuben Reuben
10. Memorial Day Parade (1’37”)
music based on Blitzstein’s setting  of Alfred Hayes’s
“Into the Streets May First”
11. Thompson’s Act III Aria, “Secrets”
#1 recorded on Premier PRCD 1005
#2-5 recorded on Original Cast Records OC 4441
#1, 7 & 10 recorded on Original Cast Records OC 6127