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GEORGE BIZET. 1954 - CARMEN JONES. LP (UK)

GEORGE BIZET. 1954

CARMEN JONES. LP (UK)

His Master's Voice – CLP.1034

Matrix / Runout (Side A label): E4-RP-8394

Matrix / Runout (Side B label): E4-RP-8395

Vinyl, LP, Mono, 33 1/3, Album,

Country: UK

Recorded / Released: 1954 / 1955

Genre, Style: Classical, Stage & Screen, Soundtrack, Musical, Opera,

mp3 320 кбит/сек. 110 Mb

Продолжительность: 46:18

TRACKLIST:

ПРОСЛУШАТЬ ВСЁ

SIDE 1:

01. Overture - 01:53

02. Opening Medley - 03:35

03. Dat's Love (Habanera) - 03:44

04. You Talk Jus' Like My Maw - 02:23

05. Dere's A Cafe On The Corner - 01:55

06. Dis Flower - 03:59

07. Beat Out Dat Rhythm On A Drum - 04:56

SIDE 2:

08. Stan' Up An' Fight - 03:53

09. Quintet: Whizzin' Away Along De Track - 04:14

10. Card Song - 04:42

11. My Joe - 05:48

12. Duet And Finale - 05:12

From the original soundtrack of the Cinemascope film

Oscar Hammerstein II’s

“CARMEN JONES”

Musie by GEORGES BIZET

The Cast:

Carmen - DOROTHY DANDRIDGE

Joe - HARRY BELAFONTE

Cindy Lou - OLGA JAMES

Frankie - PEARL BAILEY

Myrt - DIAHANN CARROLL

Rum - ROY GLENN

Dink - NICK STEWART

Husky - JOE ADAMS

Set. Brewn - BROC PETERS

T-Bone - SANDY LEWIS

Sally - MAURI LYNN

Trainer PEEAINOR - DeFOREST COVAN

with Orchestra and Chorus

Conductor : HERSCHEL BURKE GILBERT

An Otto Preminger Production

The voices of MARILYNN HORNE, LeVERN HUTCHERSON,

MARVIN HAYES, BERNICE PETERSON, BROC PETERS

and JOE CRAWFORD are heard in the singing roles of Carmen,

Joe, Husky, Myrt, Rum and Dink, respectively.

Probably no film has created more comment in recent years than has Oscar Hammerstein II’s "Carmen Jones”. The fact that the music of Bizet had been applied to a modern story and a present-day setting, caused purist lovers of the original opera to shudder. However, none was disappointed with the brilliant treatment of this

subject and that applies to this LP record, taken from the original sound-track of the film.

As Oscar Hammerstein himself says, “‘Carmen Jones is not in any way an opera, but is, in fact, a musical play based on an opera. The score of Bizet’s original music has not been altered in any way, nor has the traditional tempo been varied.”Otto Preminger in his production of ““Carmen Jones ” as a film, has woven together the stirring

music of Bizet with exceptionally fine lyrics and the synchronization of talented actors and actresses, with the magnificent voices of an unseen singing cast.

The story of “Carmen Jones” follows in a modern pattern, along the lines of its operatic counterpart, with a change of setting that brings the action into the 20th century — specifically World War II.

The story begins when Joe (Harry Belafonte) an Army corporal stationed in Jacksonville, U.S.A., is about to enter Flying School and a party is given in his honour by workers of the nearby parachute factory. Among them is his sweetheart Cindy Lou (Olga James), for whose attentions Sgt. Brown (Broc Peters) is a rival. During the course of the celebrations, Carmen Jones (Dorothy Dandridge) swaggers in and

attempts to use her feminine wiles on Joe, who is not at all interested.

Joe at that time is seeking permission from his C.O. to marry Cindy Lou when Carmen chooses to pick a fight with another female employee. Sgt. Brown maliciously puts her in Joe’s custody to take her to Jacksonville Jail, and suggests to Cindy Lou that Joe has volunteered to be responsible for Carmen.

Carmen continues to lure, and her attempts are eventually successful. Meanwhile they stop at a shanty town where she proudly shows off her Joe — all the time promising him that they will soon be aboard the train for Jacksonville and the jail. Carmen’s grandmother, who is a fortune- teller,predicts evil things for the couple, which so much upsets the superstitious Carmen that she runs away.

Joe is imprisoned for his neglect of duty, and during his imprisonment he is so devoured by his passion for Carmen that he cannot face Cindy Lou when she visits him. The only reliefs in hisimprisonment are letters and promises from Carmen, with a gift of a rose.

Carmen, meanwhile, settles down at Billy Pastor’s night club to wait for Joe. Husky

Miller (Joe Adams), a heavyweight champ, wants her as his girl friend, but Carmen will have none of it, despite the coaxing of her old friend Frankie (Pearl Bailey), whose job comes to depend on arranging things for Husky.

Joe is released, and joy reigns until Carmen realizes he still plans to go into flying school. She wants him to forget the army and go off to Chicago with her. He fights the temptation, but Sgt. Brown overhearing the scene, intrudes sneeringly and is knocked out by Joe, who, knowing now that the alternative is prison, hides the unconscious sergeant and agrees to Carmen’s plan.

In Chicago, they must evade M.P.’s and go into hiding. When their money has gone,

Carmen goes to Husky for more. Frankie urgesCarmen to be nice to the fighter, but Carmen swears she’s no two-timer. When Carmen returns

to Joe, who complains to her for being away so long, he is suspicious as to the source of the money provided for food. This drives Carmen back to Husky’s where, at a party, she reads her own cards, forecasting death.

Joe follows Carmen, eluding the M.P.’s, while Cindy Lou arrives in pursuit of Joe. All meet at Husky’s training quarters, where Carmen tells Joe it’s all over between them, but helps him to escape. Cindy Lou departs in tears knowing that she has lost her Joe.

At the championship fight, the crowd acclaiming Husky’s triumph, Joe confronts

Carmen, again pleading with her. When she refuses his love, he kills her. As the mob swarms out of the doors screaming for their hero, the heartsick Joe weeps for the dead Carmen and voices his hope they will soon “‘ hang him on the

highest tree ”’, so that he might join his beloved.

Note by Mervyn Dovc3as

"Кармен Джонс" ("Carmen Jones") - американский музыкальный фильм 1954 года с афроамериканским актерским составом в главных ролях: Гарри Белафонте, Дороти Дэндридж и Перл Бейли, спродюсированный и снятый режиссером Отто Премингером. Сценарий Гарри Кляйнера основан на текстах и книге Оскара Хаммерштейна II из одноименного мюзикла 1943 года, поставленного на музыку оперы Жоржа Бизе "Кармен" 1875 года. Опера была экранизацией новеллы Проспера Мериме "Кармен", поставленной в 1845 году Анри Мельяком и Людовиком Халеви.

"Кармен Джонс" была цветным фильмом класса "Синемаскоп" и "Делюкс", съемки которого начались в течение первых 12 месяцев после создания компанией "Двадцатый век Фокс" в 1953 году широкоэкранного формата в качестве основного производственного процесса. "Кармен Джонс" была выпущена на экраны в октябре 1954 года, ровно через год и месяц после того, как в кинотеатрах появился первый фильм Fox CinemaScope "Библейская эпопея "Риза". Фильм получил две номинации на премию "Оскар", в том числе за лучшую женскую роль за роль Дэндридж, что сделало ее первой чернокожей номинанткой в этой категории.

В 1992 году "Кармен Джонс" была отобрана Библиотекой Конгресса для сохранения в Национальном реестре фильмов Соединенных Штатов как "имеющая культурное, историческое или эстетическое значение

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmen_Jones_(film)?ysclid=mvyw8e5iby67748458

Record Company – The Gramophone Co. Ltd.

Published by: Williamson Music, Chappell

Conductor Herschel Burke Gilbert

Cast soundtrack of the 1954 movie "Carmen".

This release lists main cast and vocalist separately, as they are not performed by the same people in movie and on record throughout the performance.