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“We Are Not Strangers” from Runaways (1978)
Music and lyrics by Elizabeth Swados
Performed by Heather Christian
Listen to The Liz Swados Project: ghostlightrecords.lnk.to/lizswadosprojectLY
“The Liz Swados Project” is Swados’s legacy album - songs from 10 of her works for the stage sung by some of the most influential performers and composers in theater today. In the words of the late Michael Friedman, who studied under Swados, “Liz is in the DNA of my work.” You can hear her influence in the work of Shaina Taub, Grace McLean, Taylor Mac, Dave Malloy and the Bengsons, all of whom will pay tribute to her in their recordings of her songs. Works featured will range from her Broadway hit Runaways (1978), about the lives of children who run away from home and live on the city streets, to her little-known masterpiece The Beautiful Lady (1984), a deeply felt meditation on the triumph and catastrophe of the Russian avant-garde. Also featured on recordings will be some of the most exciting musical theater performers of today: Amber Gray, Stephanie Hsu, Damon Daunno, Starr Busby, Jo Lampert and Sophia Ann Caruso, among others.
A visionary artist, Swados was ahead of her time. This album gives her the credit she rightly deserves: as a composer, a lyricist, a teacher, a trailblazer. The change that she led is now coming into its own.
Track List:
1. We Are Not Strangers - Heather Christian
2. Every Now and Then - Dave Malloy
3. Oh, King Daddy - Amber Grey
4. The Red Queen - Taylor Mac
5. In This My Green World - Stephanie Hsu with Preston Martin
6. Take Me to Paris - Ali Stroker
7. Souf - Jo Lampert
8. You Gave Me Love - Alicia Olatuja
9. You Do Not Have To Be Good - Shaina Taub
10. Song of a Child Prostitute - Sophia Anne Caruso
11. The Dance - The Bengsons
12. Salvador - Ashley Perez Flanagan, with Rachael Duddy and Hannah Whitney
13. Isadora - Damon Daunno
14. Lonesome of the Road - Michael R. Jackson
15. War Gets Old - Grace McLean
16. A Change Shall Come - Starr Busby
17. Bird Lament - Elizabeth Swados
18. Amen - Choir
19. Things I Didn’t Know I Loved (Live) - Michael Friedman with Rachael Duddy & Dara Orland
“We Are Not Strangers” from Runaways (1978)
Music and lyrics by Elizabeth Swados
Performed by Heather Christian
Listen to The Liz Swados Project: ghostlightrecords.lnk.to/lizswadosprojectLY
“The Liz Swados Project” is Swados’s legacy album - songs from 10 of her works for the stage sung by some of the most influential performers and composers in theater today. In the words of the late Michael Friedman, who studied under Swados, “Liz is in the DNA of my work.” You can hear her influence in the work of Shaina Taub, Grace McLean, Taylor Mac, Dave Malloy and the Bengsons, all of whom will pay tribute to her in their recordings of her songs. Works featured will range from her Broadway hit Runaways (1978), about the lives of children who run away from home and live on the city streets, to her little-known masterpiece The Beautiful Lady (1984), a deeply felt meditation on the triumph and catastrophe of the Russian avant-garde. Also featured on recordings will be some of the most exciting musical theater performers of today: Amber Gray, Stephanie Hsu, Damon Daunno, Starr Busby, Jo Lampert and Sophia Ann Caruso, among others.
A visionary artist, Swados was ahead of her time. This album gives her the credit she rightly deserves: as a composer, a lyricist, a teacher, a trailblazer. The change that she led is now coming into its own.
Track List:
1. We Are Not Strangers - Heather Christian
2. Every Now and Then - Dave Malloy
3. Oh, King Daddy - Amber Grey
4. The Red Queen - Taylor Mac
5. In This My Green World - Stephanie Hsu with Preston Martin
6. Take Me to Paris - Ali Stroker
7. Souf - Jo Lampert
8. You Gave Me Love - Alicia Olatuja
9. You Do Not Have To Be Good - Shaina Taub
10. Song of a Child Prostitute - Sophia Anne Caruso
11. The Dance - The Bengsons
12. Salvador - Ashley Perez Flanagan, with Rachael Duddy and Hannah Whitney
13. Isadora - Damon Daunno
14. Lonesome of the Road - Michael R. Jackson
15. War Gets Old - Grace McLean
16. A Change Shall Come - Starr Busby
17. Bird Lament - Elizabeth Swados
18. Amen - Choir
19. Things I Didn’t Know I Loved (Live) - Michael Friedman with Rachael Duddy & Dara Orland
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“We Are Not Strangers” from Runaways (1978)
Music and lyrics by Elizabeth Swados
Performed by Heather Christian
Listen to The Liz Swados Project: https://ghostlightrecords.lnk.to/lizswadosprojectLY
“The Liz Swados Project” is Swados’s legacy album - songs from 10 of her works for the stage sung by some of the most influential performers and composers in theater today. In the words of the late Michael Friedman, who studied under Swados, “Liz is in the DNA of my work.” You can hear her influence in the work of Shaina Taub, Grace McLean, Taylor Mac, Dave Malloy and the Bengsons, all of whom will pay tribute to her in their recordings of her songs. Works featured will range from her Broadway hit Runaways (1978), about the lives of children who run away from home and live on the city streets, to her little-known masterpiece The Beautiful Lady (1984), a deeply felt meditation on the triumph and catastrophe of the Russian avant-garde. Also featured on recordings will be some of the most exciting musical theater performers of today: Amber Gray, Stephanie Hsu, Damon Daunno, Starr Busby, Jo Lampert and Sophia Ann Caruso, among others.
A visionary artist, Swados was ahead of her time. This album gives her the credit she rightly deserves: as a composer, a lyricist, a teacher, a trailblazer. The change that she led is now coming into its own.
Track List:
1. We Are Not Strangers - Heather Christian
2. Every Now and Then - Dave Malloy
3. Oh, King Daddy - Amber Grey
4. The Red Queen - Taylor Mac
5. In This My Green World - Stephanie Hsu with Preston Martin
6. Take Me to Paris - Ali Stroker
7. Souf - Jo Lampert
8. You Gave Me Love - Alicia Olatuja
9. You Do Not Have To Be Good - Shaina Taub
10. Song of a Child Prostitute - Sophia Anne Caruso
11. The Dance - The Bengsons
12. Salvador - Ashley Perez Flanagan, with Rachael Duddy and Hannah Whitney
13. Isadora - Damon Daunno
14. Lonesome of the Road - Michael R. Jackson
15. War Gets Old - Grace McLean
16. A Change Shall Come - Starr Busby
17. Bird Lament - Elizabeth Swados
18. Amen - Choir
19. Things I Didn’t Know I Loved (Live) - Michael Friedman with Rachael Duddy & Dara Orland")
