O, Babylon! > Studio Cast

Date: 1980
Type: Audio / Studio Cast
Method: Studio
Language: English
Producer: Galt MacDermot (92)
Music Director: Galt MacDermot (92)
Orchestrations: Galt MacDermot (92)
Performer: Cheryl Barnes (6), Sheila Gibbs (7), Carl Hall (5), David Johnson (8), Mel Novik
Notes: "O, Babylon" was originally performed in Derek Walcott's theatre workshop in Trinidad in 1976, and at the Jamaican Carrifest the following summer. The music presented here is fifteen songs performed by New York singers and musicians. The story takes place in Jamaica and concerns the Rastafarian predicament of living and projecting a spirit centered life in a world that measures the worth of all things and actions by their convertibility into coin, namely Babylon.
Shortcode: [r18740]