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Act I: Prologue: Color Of A Blade 05:54
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Act I: The Bhand Pather 06:17
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Act I: Boonyi 03:39
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Act I: The Woods Beyond Pachigam 06:31
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Act I: I Am Still 06:28
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Act I: The Panchayat 02:25
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Act I: Kashmiriyat 11:29
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Act I: A New Kashmir 06:15
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Act I: Ladies and Gentlemen 01:29
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Act I: The World Disappears 01:44
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Act I: A Broken Machine 01:46
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Act I: Mirrors 01:13
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Act I: Anarkali's Dance 02:37
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Act I: Maybe A Child 04:38
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Act I: Negotiations 10:54
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Act I: I Will Wait For You 04:22
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Act II: Prologue 04:24
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Act II: My Knife 00:51
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Act II: We Go Mad 02:14
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Act II: Winter Has Frozen Us Over Again 05:43
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Act II: Come And Fight 03:09
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Act II: A Child 03:12
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Act II: Who Is That? 01:31
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Act II: Shit For Brains 02:43
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Act II: One Day 02:47
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Act II: The Years Pass 04:47
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Act II: The Destruction Of Pachigam 07:22
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Act II: Who Lit That Fire 06:58
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Act II: The Village Of Pachigam Still Exists 01:29
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Act II: The Police Said 03:03
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Act II: Knife And Arrow 05:26

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The world premiere recording of Shalimar the Clown was released on July 8th by Albany Records. The recording, made in 2016, features singers Sean Panikkar, Andriana Chuchman, Gregory Dahl, Katharine Goeldner, Thomas Hammons, Jenni Bank, Geoffrey Apgalo, Justin Austin, and Aubrey Allicock. Sitarist Arjun Verma and tabla Maestro Javad Butah compliment the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra led by Maestro Jayce Ogren.

Shalimar the Clown is based on the novel by Salman Rushdie, with a libretto by award winning New York playwright Rajiv Joseph and music by Jack Perla, who has steadily forged a national reputation for his cross-fertilization of jazz, improvisation, and classical music. As with Mr. Rushdie’s book, the opera is part Hindu/Muslim Romeo and Juliet and part Himalayan Paradise Lost -- a meditation on the personal as political, and an allegory of the danger of innocence.

The Wall Street Journal called Shalimar the Clown “Haunting… topical, literary and theatrical..poignant and vivid.” The Chicago Tribune said the opera possessed “The dramatic resonance of modern Shakespearean tragedy”. The NY Times cited the opera’s “genuine out of the box composing”, and noted Ms.Chuchman’s “Intelligent, beguiling, bravura performance.”

The work was commissioned by Opera Theater of St. Louis with support from the Fred M. Saigh Endowment, the Sally S. Levy Family Fund for New Works, the Whitaker Foundation, The Andrew Mellon Foundation, The Berges Family Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. Peter Henderson produced the recording for the PanGalactic company, Paul Hennerich engineered and Jack Perla served as Associate Producer.

The recording is available at Albany Records, iTunes, Amazon and all other major outlets.

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released July 8, 2018

Jack Perla, composer; Sean Panikkar, tenor; Andriana Chuchman, soprano; Gregory Dahl, bass; Katharine Goeldner, mezzo-soprano; Thomas Hammons, baritone; Jenni Bank, soprano; Geoffrey Agpalo, tenor; Justin Austin, tenor; Aubrey Allicock, baritone; Arjun Verma, sitar; Javad Butah, tabla; members of the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra; Jayce Ogren, conductor

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Jack Perla is active in opera, jazz, chamber and symphonic music. His compositions have been widely performed and he’s performed in the U.S., Europe and Japan. Jack has been commissioned by the Los Angeles Opera, Opera Theatre St. Louis, Houston Grand Opera, Seattle Opera, The Paul Dresher Ensemble, and The Barlow Endowment. He's also a recipient of the Thelonious Monk Institute Composers Award. ... more

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