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Marc Blitzstein
Person · male · United States · Philadelphia · born 1905 · died 1964 · recording since 1991
American composer, lyricist, and librettist (1905–1964)
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Also known as Marcus Samuel Blitzstein · Mark Blitzstein · マーク・ブリッツスタイン
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Debut release: Regina
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2000s
Biography
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Biography
Marcus Samuel Blitzstein (March 2, 1905 – January 22, 1964), was an American composer, lyricist, and librettist. He won national attention in 1937 when his pro-union musical The Cradle Will Rock, directed by Orson Welles, was shut down by the Works Progress Administration. He is known for The Cradle Will Rock and for his off-Broadway translation and adaptation of The Threepenny Opera by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill. His works also include the opera Regina, an adaptation of Lillian Hellman's play The Little Foxes; the Broadway musical Juno, based on Seán O'Casey's play Juno and the Paycock; and No for an Answer. He completed translations and adaptations of Brecht's and Weill's musical play Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny and of Brecht's play Mother Courage and Her Children with music by Paul Dessau. Blitzstein also composed music for films, such as Surf and Seaweed (1931) and The Spanish Earth (1937), and he contributed two songs to the original 1960 production of Hellman's play Toys in the Attic.
Life and career
Blitzstein was born in Philadelphia on March 2, 1905. His father descended from a family of Jewish bankers. Blitzstein's musical gifts were apparent at an early age; he had performed a Mozart piano concerto by the time he was seven. He went on to study piano with Alexander Siloti (a pupil of Tchaikovsky and Liszt), and made his professional concerto debut with the Philadelphia Orchestra in Liszt's E-flat Piano Concerto when he was 21.
After studying composition at the Curtis Institute of Music, he went to Europe to continue his studies in Berlin with Arnold Schoenberg (with whom he did not get on), and in Paris with Nadia Boulanger (with whom he did). Back in New York, he connected to the Composers Collective - with members as Aaron Copland and Hanns Eisler - known for their left-leaning political viewpoints. Despite his later political beliefs, he was, in the early years of his career, a self-proclaimed and unrepentant artistic snob, who firmly believed that true art was only for the intellectual elite. He was vociferous in denouncing composers – in particular Respighi, Ravel, and Kurt Weill – who, he felt, debased their standards to reach a wider public.
His works of this period, mostly pianistic vehicles such as the Piano Sonata (1927) and the Piano Concerto (1931) are typical of the Boulanger-influenced products of American modernism – strongly rhythmic (though not influenced by jazz) and described by himself as "wild, dissonant and percussive." These early works were far removed from the Schoenberg style.
The dramatic premiere of the pro-union The Cradle Will Rock took place at the Venice Theater on June 16, 1937. The cast had been locked out of the Maxine Elliott Theatre by the Works Progress Administration, the government agency which had originally funded the production, so the cast and musicians walked with the audience to the nearby Venice. There, without costumes or sets, they performed the work concert-style, actors and musicians alike, sitting among the audience (to evade union restrictions on their performance) with Blitzstein narrating from the piano. In 1939, Leonard Bernstein led a revival of the play at Harvard, narrating from the piano just as Blitzstein had done. Blitzstein attended the performance, after which he and Bernstein became close friends; Bernstein would later say that Blitzstein's contribution to the American musical theatre was "incalculable". The 1999 film Cradle Will Rock was based on this event, though heavily embellished. In the film, Blitzstein (played by Hank Azaria) is portrayed as gaining inspiration through ghostly appearances by his idol Brecht and his late anorexic wife.
Additional major compositions include the autobiographical radio song play I've Got the Tune, The Airborne Symphony (1946), Regina (1949), Reuben, Reuben (1955), and Juno (1959). At the time of his death, Blitzstein was at work on Idiots First, a one-act opera based on the eponymous story by Bernard Malamud – intended to be part of a set of one-acters called Tales of Malamud – which Ned Rorem has called "his best work". This was followed by the work, Blitzstein intended to be his magnum opus, a three-act opera commissioned by the Ford Foundation and optioned by the Metropolitan Opera entitled Sacco and Vanzetti. Both Tales of Malamud and Sacco and Vanzetti were completed posthumously, with the approval of Blitzstein's estate, by composer Leonard Lehrman. Lehrman completed his long-awaited Marc Blitzstein: A Bio-Bibliography published in 2005 by Praeger.
During World War II, Blitzstein served as a sergeant in the U.S. Army, attached to the Office of War Information. In 1945, he was one of 16 Army officers and enlisted men singled out as alleged Communists by the House Committee on Military Affairs. General "Wild Bill" Donovan came to their defense, citing their loyalty and effectiveness. In 1958, Blitzstein was subpoenaed to appear before the U.S. House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC). Appearing first in a closed session, Blitzstein admitted his membership in the Communist Party (ending in 1949) and, challenging the right of HUAC to question him at all, refused to name names or cooperate any further. He was recalled for a further public session, but after a day sitting anxiously in a waiting room he was not called to testify.
During a visit to Martinique in 1964, at the age of 58, Blitzstein was murdered by three sailors he had picked up in a bar, one of whom he was said to have propositioned. He is buried at Chelten Hills Cemetery in Philadelphia.
Personal life and family
Blitzstein was openly gay. He wrote to his sister in 1929, regarding prior attempts to suppress or hide his orientation, "it is absurd to assume there are no sins; there are definitely Cardinal sins -- sins against oneself, against one's law. My sin is, has been... the willingness to corrupt my nature." His first lover was the conductor Alexander Smallens, with whom he traveled to Europe in 1924. Blitzstein nevertheless married novelist Eva Goldbeck on March 2, 1933. They had no children.
His mother-in-law was Berlin-born musical star and opera singer Lina Abarbanell. He dedicated a number of works, including Romantic Piece for Orchestra (1930), String Quartet, 'The Italian' (1930), the ballet Cain (1930), and the Serenade for String Quartet (1932) to his wife-to-be. She died of anorexia in 1936, and his grief prompted him to throw himself into the work of creating The Cradle Will Rock.
Discography & profile
Normalised profile
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| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 15 | 72.5th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 14 | 84.5th |
| Studio albums | 4 | 82.8th |
| Awards recorded | 3 | 95.4th |
| Timeline events | 9 | 85.5th |
| Recording span (years) | -27 | 7.7th |
| Genres | 4 | 84.7th |
Percentiles are computed at render time; missing values mean the artist has no data on that axis.
Discography (14 release groups · 4 studio albums)
Albums · 4
1991 · studio album
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Tracklist · 36 tracks · 2:32:24
Disc 11Prologue9:152Act 1, No. 1: Intro1:523Act 1, No. 2: Birdie4:284Act 1, No. 3: Small Talk8:155Act 1, No. 4: Goodbyes1:576Act 1, No. 5: Big Rich4:047Act 1, No. 6a: I don't know4:308Act 1, No. 6b: My, my4:269Act 1, No. 7a: Away4:4210Act 1, No. 7b: The best thing of all2:4311Act 1, No. 7c: What will it be2:1812Act 1, No. 8: Birdie and Zan2:0513Act 2, Scene 1, No. 1: Oh, Addie where are you?1:4114Act 2, Scene 1, No. 2: Deedle doodle1:2715Act 2, Scene 1, No. 3: These cee-gars what you looking for son?5:1416Act 2, Scene 1, No. 4: Horace's entrance4:3517Act 2, Scene 1, No. 5: Greetings3:2018Act 2, Scene 1, No. 6: Horace and Regina9:0519Act 2, Scene 1, No. 7: The Business2:03Disc 21Act 2, Scene 2, No. 1: Gottschalk2:192Act 2, Scene 2, No. 2: Sing Hubbard4:003Act 2, Scene 2, No. 3: Transition0:284Act 2, Scene 2, No. 4a: Polka2:315Act 2, Scene 2, No. 4b: Chinkypin5:486Act 2, Scene 2, No. 5: Blues5:017Act 2, Scene 2, No. 6: Waltz4:308Act 2, Scene 2, No. 7: Intro and Gallop3:309Act 3, No. 1: Rain Quartet9:1110Act 3, No. 2: Birdie's Aria9:0611Act 3, No. 3: Horace and Addie0:5812Act 3, No. 4: Horace and Regina3:1913Act 3, No. 5: Regina's Aria5:4214Act 3, No. 6: Melodrama3:1415Act 3, No. 7: Greedy Girl2:3216Act 3, No. 8: Horace's Death7:3717Act 3, No. 9: Finale4:381993 · studio album
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Tracklist · 21 tracks · 1:06:11
1Monday Morning Blues2:432Croon-Spoon1:353The New Suit ("Zipperfly")5:324In the Clear3:595Then3:126I Wish It So4:217In Twos3:108Penny Candy5:569Emily (Ballad of the Bombardier)4:0610Displaced2:5711o by the by1:2412until and i heard1:1313open your heart2:0714jimmie's got a goil0:5315What Will It Be for Me2:4116Rose Song4:0617Blues4:3318Nickel Under the Foot3:1819The Cradle Will Rock1:4620Bird Upon the Tree2:1521Stay in My Arms4:241998 · studio album
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Tracklist · 35 tracks · 2:30:51
Disc 11The Cradle Will Rock: Scene 1 (Streetcorner). I'm checkin' home now (Moll)3:252The Cradle Will Rock: Scene 2 (Nightcourt)0:503The Cradle Will Rock: Scene 3 (Mission). Mission Scene (Mrs. Mister, Reverend Salvation)6:514The Cradle Will Rock: Scene 4 (Lawn of Mr. Mister's Home). Croon Spoon (Junior Mister, Sister Mister) / The Freedom of the Press (Mr. Mister, Editor Daily) / Honolulu (Junior Mister, Sister Mister, Editor Daily, Mr. Mister)9:515The Cradle Will Rock: Scene 5 (Drugstore). Drugstore Scene (Harry Druggist, Steve) / Gus and Sadie Love Song (Gus Polock, Sadie Polock)7:516The Cradle Will Rock: Scene 6 (Hotel Lobby). The Rich (Yasha, Dauber) / Ask Us Again (Yasha, Dauber, Mrs. Mister) / Art for Art's Sake (Yasha, Dauber)6:467The Cradle Will Rock: Scene 7 (Nightcourt). Nickel Under the Foot (Moll) / Leaflets (Larry Foreman) / The Cradle Will Rock (Larry Foreman)8:218The Cradle Will Rock: Scene 8 (Faculty Room)0:509The Cradle Will Rock: Scene 9 (Dr. Specialist's Office). Doctor and Ella (Ella Hammer, Doctor Specialist) / Joe Worker (Ella Hammer)5:2410The Cradle Will Rock: Scene 10 (Nightcourt). Finale (Ensemble)5:3211No for an Answer: Act I, Scene 1. Opening Chorus "No for an Answer" (Chorus)3:0812No for an Answer: Act I, Scene 4. Secret Singing (Olive Deering, Lloyd Gough)3:0613No for an Answer: Act I, Scene 6. Dimples-Fraught (Carol Channing, Coby Ruskin)4:1814No for an Answer: Act I, Scene 8. Francie (Norma Green, Micahel Loring)3:1715No for an Answer: Act I, Scene 10. "No for an Answer" (Chorus)5:53Disc 21No for an Answer: Act II, Scene 1. Penny Candy (Curt Conway)4:562No for an Answer: Act II, Scene 4. Mike (Bert Conway)2:023No for an Answer: Act I, Scene 3. Gina (Hester Sondergaard, Norma Green, Martin Wolfson)1:344No for an Answer: Act II, Scene 7. Nick (Martin Wolfson)1:225No for an Answer: Act II, Scene 7. Purest Kind of a Guy (Curt Conway, Chorus)4:046No for an Answer: Act II, Scene 9. Make the Heart be Stone / Chorus "No for an Answer" (Chorus)3:177Dusty Sun (baritone: Walter Scheff, piano: Leonard Bernstein)3:428The Airborne Symphony: Part I. No. 1 Theory of Flight (New York City Symphony Orchestra & RCA Victor Chorale feat. conductor: Leonard Bernstein)4:449The Airborne Symphony: Part I. No. 2 Ballad of History and Mythology (New York City Symphony Orchestra & RCA Victor Chorale feat. conductor: Leonard Bernstein)7:2610The Airborne Symphony: Part I. No. 3 Kittyhawk (New York City Symphony Orchestra & RCA Victor Chorale feat. conductor: Leonard Bernstein)0:2911The Airborne Symphony: Part I. No. 4 The Airborne (New York City Symphony Orchestra & RCA Victor Chorale feat. conductor: Leonard Bernstein)1:4412The Airborne Symphony: Part II. No. 5 The Enemy (New York City Symphony Orchestra & RCA Victor Chorale feat. conductor: Leonard Bernstein)4:3413The Airborne Symphony: Part II. No. 6 Threat and Approach (New York City Symphony Orchestra & RCA Victor Chorale feat. conductor: Leonard Bernstein)3:0914The Airborne Symphony: Part II. No. 7 Ballad of the Cities (New York City Symphony Orchestra & RCA Victor Chorale feat. conductor: Leonard Bernstein)7:0915The Airborne Symphony: Part II. No. 8 Morning Poem (New York City Symphony Orchestra & RCA Victor Chorale feat. conductor: Leonard Bernstein)1:5916The Airborne Symphony: Part III. No. 9 Ballad of Hurry-Up (New York City Symphony Orchestra & RCA Victor Chorale feat. conductor: Leonard Bernstein)6:4017The Airborne Symphony: Part III. No. 10 Night Music: Ballad of the Bombardier (New York City Symphony Orchestra & RCA Victor Chorale feat. conductor: Leonard Bernstein)5:1918The Airborne Symphony: Part III. No. 11a Recitative (New York City Symphony Orchestra & RCA Victor Chorale feat. conductor: Leonard Bernstein)0:4719The Airborne Symphony: Part III. No. 11b Chorus of the Rendezvous (New York City Symphony Orchestra & RCA Victor Chorale feat. conductor: Leonard Bernstein)2:2420The Airborne Symphony: Part III. No. 12 The Open Sky (New York City Symphony Orchestra & RCA Victor Chorale feat. conductor: Leonard Bernstein)8:072009 · studio album
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Tracklist · 12 tracks · 59:25
1Piano Sonata7:022Piano Percussion Music: I. Toccata2:323Piano Percussion Music: II. Air4:514Piano Percussion Music: III. Rondino4:365Scherzo, "Bourgeois At Play"3:106Quartet for Strings, "Italian": I. Allegro4:167Quartet for Strings, "Italian": II. Allegretto5:178Quartet for Strings, "Italian": III. Presto Possibile1:519Quartet for Strings, "Italian": IV. Lento9:1010Serenade for String Quartet: I. Largo5:3611Serenade for String Quartet: II. Largo5:2112Serenade for String Quartet: III. Largo5:43
Album · 9
| Cover | Year | Title | Notes | First release |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | The Cradle Will Rock (Original 1985 Cast Recording)Search SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 34 tracks · 1:31:11Disc 1 1John Houseman's Introduction12:09 Disc 21Moll's Song1:35 2Moll and Gent1:43 3I'll Show You Guys1:57 4Richard Speaking1:35 5Come to the Rescue1:42 6Solicitin'1:35 7Hey Virgil2:40 8Oh What a Filthy Night Court1:45 9Hard Times - The Sermon6:54 10Order in the Court Room0:31 11Croon Spoon1:52 12Do We Disturb0:26 13The Freedom of the Press4:08 14Let's Do Something0:52 15Honolulu2:33 16Order in the Court Room II0:22 17Drugstore0:25 18Summer Weather1:04 19Dialogue3:33 20Love Duet (Gus and Sadie)2:39 21Don't Let me Keep You3:36 22Ask Us Again3:09 23Art for Art's Sake0:55 24The Nickel Under Your Foot3:19 25Which of You Guys?3:14 26The Cradle Will Rock1:33 27The Cradle Will Rock (Speech)2:09 28Order in the Courtroom III0:11 29Faculty Room4:27 30It's Not Going To Hurt4:06 31Ella's Entrance1:49 32Joe Worker3:05 33Final Scene7:38 | Soundtrack | 1999 | |
| 2018 | BERNSTEIN in the 1940s Volume 1: Blitzstein, Gillis, Ravel (1946)Search SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 16 tracks · 1:14:201Airborne Symphony - Part One - The Theory of Flight4:36 2Airborne Symphony - Part One - Ballad of History and Mythology4:24 3Airborne Symphony - Part One - Kittyhawk2:44 4Airborne Symphony - Part One - The Airborne1:40 5Airborne Symphony - Part Two - The Enemy4:17 6Airborne Symphony - Part Two - Threat and Approach2:20 7Airborne Symphony - Part Two - Ballad of the Cities7:10 8Airborne Symphony - Part Two - Morning Poem1:17 9Airborne Symphony - Part Three - Air Force_ Ballad of Hurry-Up6:44 10Airborne Symphony - Part Three - Night Music_ Ballad of the Bombardier4:53 11Airborne Symphony - Part Three - Recitative_ Chorus of the Rendezvous2:08 12Airborne Symphony - Part Three - The Open Sky (Finale)7:14 13Motor Perpetuo4:42 14Piano Concerto - 1st mvt. - Allegramente7:32 15Piano Concerto - 2nd mvt. - Adagio assai9:01 16Piano Concerto - 3rd mvt. - Presto3:38 | Compilation | 2018 | |
| — | No for an Answer (1941 original cast)Search SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 14 tracks · 17:451The Song of the Bat3:08 2Take the Book 3Gina1:34 4Secret Singing3:06 5Dimples 6Fraught 7Francie3:17 8No for an Answer 9Penny Candy 10Mike2:02 11The Purest Kind of Guy 12Nick1:22 13Make the Heart Be Stone3:16 14No for an Answer | Soundtrack | — | |
| — | The Cradle Will Rock (Original Broadway Cast)Search SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 10 tracks · 1:18:05Disc 1 1Scene One6:46 2Scene Two6:12 3Scene Three7:46 4Scene Four10:26 5Scene Five8:41 Disc 21Scene Six7:24 2Scene Seven10:27 3Scene Eight5:40 4Scene Nine7:42 5Scene Ten7:01 | Soundtrack | — | |
| — | Juno (original Broadway cast)Search SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 22 tracks · 55:401Overture1:09 2We're Alive4:34 3I Wish It So2:36 4Song of the Ma2:52 5We Can Be Proud0:47 6Daarlin' Man3:53 7One Kind Word4:01 8Old Sayin's2:09 9What Is the Stars2:58 10You Poor Thing3:11 11On a Day Like This6:40 12My True Heart2:25 13Bird Upon the Tree1:49 14Music in the House1:13 15It's Not Irish1:35 16The Liffey Waltz1:53 17Hymn1:21 18Johnny3:23 19You Poor Thing (Reprise)1:24 20For Love1:49 21Where?2:12 22Finale1:46 | Soundtrack | — | |
| — | Darlin' Juno (1976 Long Wharf Theater cast)Search SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 19 tracks · 2:33:391Act 1: Scene 12:40 2Act 1: Scene 212:10 3Act 1: Scene 39:15 4Act 1: Scene 47:13 5Act 1: Scene 51:42 6Act 1: Scene 63:53 7Act 1: Scene 77:49 8Act 1: Scene 810:43 9Act 1: Scene 914:34 10Act 1: Scene 108:40 11Act 2: Scene 17:57 12Act 2: Scene 25:38 13Act 2: Scene 38:29 14Act 2: Scene 416:07 15Act 2: Scene 52:38 16Act 2: Scene 615:47 17Act 2: Scene 711:23 18Act 2: Scene 82:59 19Act 2: Scene 94:02 | Soundtrack | — | |
| — | The Cradle Will Rock (1994 Blank Theatre Company, Los Angeles cast)Search SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 22 tracks · 1:18:051Scene 1: Streetcorner: I'm Checkin' Home Now6:43 2Scene 2: Night Court5:51 3Scene 2: Oh What a Filthy Night Court1:56 4Scene 3: Mission6:43 5Scene 4: Lawn of Mr. Mister's Home: Croon Spoon2:23 6Scene 4: Freedom of the Press4:18 7Scene 4: Let's Do Something0:49 8Scene 4: Honolulu2:59 9Scene 5: Drugstore4:43 10Scene 5: Gus & Sadie Love Song2:45 11Scene 6: Hotel Lobby: The Rich3:26 12Scene 6: Mrs. Mister's Entrance3:37 13Scene 6: Art for Art's Sake0:44 14Scene 7: Night Court / Nickel Under the Foot4:27 15Scene 7: Leaflets1:22 16Scene 7: The Cradle Will Rock4:01 17Scene 8: Faculty Room6:39 18Scene 9: Dr. Specialist's Office3:01 19Scene 9: Doctor & Ella1:54 20Scene 9: Joe Worker2:34 21Scene 10: Night Court5:46 22Scene 10: Finale1:24 | Soundtrack | — | |
| — | Reuben, Reuben (1955-10-05 Boston cast)Search SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 30 tracks · 2:16:38Disc 1 1Opening6:31 2Thank You2:01 3Never Get Lost6:00 4Tell It to Bart3:25 5It's in the Cards9:38 6Shave and a Haircut3:37 7Song of the Arrow5:38 8Cop's Lament5:33 9Such a Little While2:47 10Have Yourself a Little Night8:40 11San Gennaro4:02 12With a Woman to Be3:39 13The Hills of Amalfi1:18 14Rose Song4:48 15Miracle Song / Sleep9:45 Disc 21Love at the First Word3:09 2The Spot2:10 3Mystery of the Flesh2:01 4Yeth, Yeth2:16 5Moment of Love1:39 6Ballet6:01 7There Goes My Love8:34 8Be With Me2:56 9Mother of the Bridegroom4:05 10Upstairsy2:22 11Musky and Whisky5:19 12Reuben Talks7:49 13We Got a Pact4:26 14Monday Morning Blues5:48 15Bows0:41 | Soundtrack | — | |
| — | Juno (1992 Musical Theater Lab at the Vineyard Theater cast)Search SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 27 tracks · 2:27:391Act 1: Overture / We're Alive49:25 2Act 1: We Can Be Proud1:36 3Act 1: Ireland's Eye1:33 4Act 1: Daarlin' Man / [Dialog]5:31 5Act 1: Song of the Ma4:01 6Act 1: I Wish It So3:17 7Act 1: One Kind Word7:17 8Act 1: Old Sayin's2:55 9Act 1: What Is the Stars2:36 10Act 1: His Own Peculiar Charm / [Dialog]5:03 11Act 1: Old Sayin'S (reprise) / [Dialog]3:25 12Act 1: On a Day Like This5:11 13Act 2 [incidental music on the theme of You Poor Thing]1:34 14Act 2: You Poor Thing4:26 15Act 2: My True Heart.8:06 16Act 2: Bird Upon the Tree3:28 17Act 2: Music in the House0:51 18Act 2: It's Not Irish1:37 19Act 2: The Liffey Waltz2:56 20Act 2: Hymn2:50 21Act 2: Johnny4:08 22Act 2: You Poor Thing (reprise)4:40 23Act 2: Old Sayin's (Re-reprise)10:08 24Act 2: For Love1:46 25Act 2: One Kind Word (reprise)3:34 26Act 2: Where?3:20 27Act 2: We're Alive (reprise)2:25 | Soundtrack | — |
Other · 1
| Cover | Year | Title | Notes | First release |
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| — | The Cradle will RockSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 23 tracksDisc 1 A1Scene 1: Street Corner: Moll’s Song A2Scene 1: Street Corner: Moll and Gent A3Scene 1: Street Corner: Moll and Dick A4Scene 2: Night Court: Moll and Druggist A5Scene 2: Night Court: Oh, What a Filthy Night Court! A6Scene 3: Mission: Mrs. Mister and Reverend Salvation D1Scene 8: Faculty Room D2Scene 9: Dr. Specialists Office: Doctor and Ella D3Scene 9: Dr. Specialists Office: Joe Worker D4Scene 10: Night Court: Finale D5Scene 10: Night Court: Reprise of The Cradle Will Rock Disc 2B1Scene 4: Lawn of Mr. Mister’s House: Croon‐Spoon B2Scene 4: Lawn of Mr. Mister’s House: The Freedom of the Press B3Scene 4: Lawn of Mr. Mister’s House: Let’s Do Something B4Scene 4: Lawn of Mr. Mister’s House: Honolulu B5Scene 5: Drugstore: Drugstore Scene B6Scene 5: Drugstore: Gus and Sadie Love Song C1Scene 6: Hotel Lobby: The Rich C2Scene 6: Hotel Lobby: Ask Us Again C3Scene 6: Hotel Lobby: Art for Art’s Sake C4Scene 7: Night Court: Nickel Under the Foot C5Scene 7: Night Court: Leaflets C6Scene 7: Night Court: The Cradle Will Rock | Soundtrack | — |
Stats & PK
Percentile within all 23,672 published artists.Put Marc Blitzstein head-to-head →
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 15 | 72.5th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 14 | 84.5th |
| Studio albums | 4 | 82.8th |
| Awards recorded | 3 | 95.4th |
| Timeline events | 9 | 85.5th |
| Recording span (years) | -27 | 7.7th |
| Genres | 4 | 84.7th |
Awards & honours
| Year | Award | Category | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940 | Guggenheim Fellowship | won | |
| 1946 | Arts and Letters Award in Music | won | |
| — | star on Playwrights' Sidewalk | won |
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