Wonderful tribute Rodney with lots of color and examples. I thoroughly enjoyed reading it.

Regarding posts, I cannot help but comment that you oft respond in very few words, I, for one, would enjoy that you fill them out more with your thoughts.

Michael

Robin Field’s music can be purchased at this site:

https://www.shop.classicreadings.com/quickSearch.hg

Simply enter “robin field” in the searchin’ field to find details on these items:

The Bronze Ring

The virtue of honesty is emphasized in this fairy opera, performed by a full professional cast, and written, composed, produced and directed by Robin Field.  Songs include, "The Gardener's Son," "Tell Him Honestly," "Come Travel with Me," "The Little Red Fishes" and "Ring of Bronze."
 

 

The Crystal Palace

The virtue of pride is emphasized in this fairy opera, performed by a full professional cast, and written, composed, produced and directed by Robin Field.  Songs include, "Ah, My Son," "Who Is She?," "A Man of Few Words," "Chatter," "She Liked Me" and "Dear Little Princess."

Daugherty & Field

Special Material

The award-winning musical-comedy team of Bill Daugherty and Robin Field recreate over a dozen original songs from their cabaret, nightclub, hotel, Off-Broadway and concert hall appearances between 1986-1993, including their parody of George Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue."

Reason in Rhyme
(formerly Three Questions)

This informal introduction to philosophy in song and verse is written, composed and performed live by Robin Field.  Poems include, "What Is So?," "How Do You Know?" and "What Should You Do?" Songs include, "Cause & Effect," "The Universe," "A Is A" and "I Took It from There."

Broadway - A Hundred Years Ago

1891

The Original New York Cast of this musical revue, written and directed by Robin Field, portray such early American stars as Henry Clay Barnabee, Eugene Cowles, Jessie Barlett Davis, Thomas Q. Seabrooke, Lydia Thompson and Weber & Fields as they appeared onstage in 1891.

This is the first in a series of seven CDs: 1887, 1888, 1889, 1890, 1891, and 1893.

(Edited by Rodney Rawlings on 1/07, 3:07pm)

Flash! This month and next, Robin will be appearing in two separate productions of Monna Vanna, which Ayn Rand called “one of the greatest plays in all world literature.”

Details:

November 29–December 16, 2007

At the Stella Adler Theatre

6773 Hollywood Boulevard

Los Angeles, CA 90028

and

January 12, 2008

Aboard the QCFA Arts Cruise

For more information, go to:

http://www.monna-vanna.com/cast/

(In this case, you must include the final slash!) From that site:

… Monna Vanna [1902] was Maeterlinck’s first brilliant success. It was played on every important stage in Europe, except in England, where it was forbidden by censor. In 1911, Maeterlinck was honored with the Nobel Prize for literary achievement.

It is the late fifteenth century, and the battered city of Pisa faces imminent vanquishment by the superior army of Florence. As the city’s commander prepares for the inevitable end, he receives from the enemy an astonishing offer of rescue. The attack will be called off, the siege will be lifted, the starving city will be resupplied—on one condition. The commander’s wife, a woman revered as the epitome of honor and virtue, must surrender her body for a night to the hated leader of the Florentine army. 

There is more on the play’s story at the last-cited link.