Sampler of the operatic duo Gulley/Granner's upcoming album of opera arias and duets with piano quartet.

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"(who shall be poor)" Lowi & Ginsberg - American Government

A Study on Captain Walker is the character study composition I started summer 2011. It's based upon "The Who's Tommy" in which I performed the role of Capt. Walker at  Metropolitan Ensemble Theater in Kansas City.

Basically it is kind of through composed thought process, kind of through Tommy's eyes as Captain Walker tries to communicate with him and while he and Mrs. Walker are putting Tommy through treatment after an altercation where Capt. Walker kills Mrs. Walker's boyfriend as the Captain returns from the war, where he had been imprisoned in a POW camp.

Captain and Mrs. Walker in a panic caused long term damage to Tommy. Spending decades taking the boy to doctors. specialists, gypsies, Tommy is finally cured when Mrs. Walker Smashes the Mirror Tommy has used as a device for his dissociative behavior.

The voice of Mr. Walker, Doctors, Mrs. Walker and Tommy are mine and the other voices are utilized thorough the use of tracks incorporated into the composition.

The other tracks used are from SoundCloud artists working from a Crative Commons License:

"Euphoria Propagation" by EcramAda "http://soundcloud.com/ecramada"
"Euphoria Heights" by Neodian "http://soundcloud.com/neodian"
"Erradicated" by Vector_Eq "http://soundcloud.com/vector_e/erradicated"

the vocals were recorded on my iPhone using the Improvox application

20 Yrs. A Study on Captain Walker

N Granner V/O Demo Jan 2013

Wanted to see what Mbube (Lion Sleeps 2nite)sounded like in a minor key... a whole new song came out.

Nathan Granner -Zoulonfire

Nathan Granner - This is How I Roll

NATHAN GRANNER is a world-renowned leading tenor, headliner, solo and collaborative artist, specializing in Contemporary Opera and late Bel-Canto repertoire.
 
The San Francisco Chronicle recently described Mr. Granner’s singing as possessing a "sinewy, ringing tone; splendidly flexible" and the San Francisco Classical Voice extolled "tons of squillo on his top notes, his honeyed tone, and his sensitive dynamic choices..."
 
In addition to singing roles like Puccini's Rodolfo, Mozart's Ferrando and Verdi's Jacopo Foscari, Granner’s intense performance style hits all of his characters, He has originated numerous roles in world premieres, including Korey Wise in Anthony Davis' 2020 Pulitzer Prize-winning opera "The Central Park Five." and Aubrey Wells in Opera Parallèle's beautiful work "Today it Rains," by the Laura Kaminsky, Mark Campbell and Kimberly Reid team.
 
Gaining chart-topping success as a founding member of the Sony Classical group, “The American Tenors”, Nathan has also toured extensively as a solo artist accompanied by classical guitarist/record producer Beau Bledsoe. Together they’ve brought arrangements of Lieder and Chanson, Flamenco, Tango, Turkish styles and new compositions to such remote places as Glendive, Montana and Perm, Russia, *a city of more than a million people held secret until the cold war between the U.S.S.R. and The United States of America ended.

Nathan Granner

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