This heartfelt song collection is a purely American phenomenon - supremely gifted musicians that can't be categorized or quantified: Stevie Wonder meets Leonard Bernstein; Cole Porter, Duke Ellington and the Gershwins rubbing shoulders across the years with Richard Rodgers, Adam Guettel, and Harold Arlen; songs from the Great American Songbook, musicals, Hollywood films, and opera. And all performed with exquisite style, poetry and nuance by vocalist Darius de Haas, and pianist Steven Blier. Blier, one of today's leading advocates for American song, describes working with Darius de Haas as like "backing up a moody tenor sax...hypnotizing me with his voice." It's the hypnotic intensity of these recordings that implore us to turn to one another, asking for Quiet Please, as we enter a world of soaring melody and extraordinary emotional depth.

Reviews:

“This is an absolutely delightful disc—a collection of American songs and ballads, beautifully sung and lovingly accompanied by one of our finest collaborative pianists.” - Fanfare

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Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most; (, )
They All Laughed (George and Ira Gershwin)
If It's Magic ()
I?ve Got a Crush On You (George and Ira Gershwin)
Mr. Paganini ()
Someone to Watch Over Me (George and Ira Gershwin)
There's a Boat That?s Leaving Soon for New York ( and , )
Good Morning Heartache (, , )
Paper Moon (, , )
Some Other Time (, , )
In a Sentimental Mood (, , )
Glad to Be Unhappy (, )
Love for Sale ()
Sophisticated Lady (, , )
I Have Dreamed (, )
Hero and Leander ()
Migratory V (Adam Guettel)

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