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Children of Eden: Vocal Selections (Essential Musicals) | 
 enlarge | Author: Stephen Schwartz
Publisher: Alfred Publishing Company
Category: Book
List Price: $16.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 747897
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 11.8 x 9.1 x 0.3
ISBN: 0769270085
Dewey Decimal Number: 782
UPC: 029156957525
EAN: 9780769270081
ASIN: 0769270085
Publication Date: July 1999
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Product Description
Musical from the multi Grammy and Oscar winning composer/lyricist of Godspell, Pippin, The Prince of Egypt, The Magic Show, The Baker's Wife, and more. Book includes a biography. Titles are: Ain't It Good * Children of Eden * Close to Home * The Hardest Part of Love * In the Beginning * In Pursuit of Excellence * In Whatever Time We Have * Lost in the Wilderness * Spark of Creation * Stranger to the Rain * Wastland * A World Without You.
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Accurate keyboard reductions May 23, 2005
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Like most of Schwartz's published music, the selections included in this collection are scored well for voice and keyboard alone. The vocal line in never interpolated into the accompaniment figure, allowing the pianist to have much more fun than is often the case with coma-inducing boom-chick reductions. Because of this, the aspiring pianist may have a more difficult time reading the music than his/her trained counterpart, but none of the music should prove overly demanding for anyone who has seriously studied the instrument. The music feels great under the fingers, and-as is the case with most of Schwartz's scores-proves to be a good study in rock/pop pianism.
The ever-popular "Lost in the Wilderness" is scored a whole step lower than the original show key (here it is in G Major). The vocal ornamentation at the end of the "Lost" bridge isn't written out and there are several places in "Stranger to the Rain" where the music director of the cast album allowed vocal liberties that are not represented in the printed music (whether or not you like them we can assume that they weren't Mr. Schwartz's ideas). All in all a good a good source of material.
FANTASTIC! November 18, 2002
0 out of 4 found this review helpful
Im actually in a production of this play right now, and theres only one thing better than listening to the cd, and its seeing it! I highly recommend this and my other favorite Schwartz show Godspell. My favorite song is "The Wasteland" not because thats my solo, but because its a brilliantly written piece of music.
Children of Eden April 8, 2000
2 out of 12 found this review helpful
I saw the actual play 2 times and loved it both times granted i saw it at my high school with our own cast performing it. But the songs were still awesome and that intern inspired me to purchase the CD, Some of my favorite songs are :"In Pursuit of Excellence", "The Wasteland", "Spark of Creation", "The Naming", "Generations", "Ain't it good", "The Perfect Day", "Piece of Eight" well lets just say that i loved them all. Stephen Schwartz is an absolute GENIOUS! TINA GONZALES,JEFF GWALTNEY,CHRIS CAUSEY,COLT CLARK,CHELSEY STONE,BRICK STONE, KRISTEN NASH and ESPECIALLY ERIN SMOOT ARE AWESOME! NOT TO MENTION MRS. REEDER, MRS. ATKINSON, MRS. HANCOCK, AND MR.McCUTCHEON (THE DIRECTORS)
 excellent music March 29, 2000
9 out of 10 found this review helpful
The Children of Eden vocal selections are wonderful. If you haven't heard the music, make sure you do - it's some of the greatest ever. My only complaint is that the selections left out some of the best songs, namely "Generations."
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