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Gordon Getty’s complete literary works released
On July 18, 2024, Festival Napa Valley held a book launch for Gordon Getty’s newly-published book “Upon A Day”
“Gordon Getty Essentials” playlist released
On March 7, 2024, Payam Mirrashidi announced that Apple Music Classical has released the “Gordon Getty Essentials” playlist.
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Gordon Getty’s oeuvre spans orchestral works, song cycles, and full length operas.
Goodbye, Mr. Chips (2025)
Gordon Getty’s opera is based on James Hilton’s beloved 1934 novella “Goodbye, Mr. Chips” and other stories. It tells the heartwarming story of Chips, a beloved schoolteacher portrayed by tenor Nathan Granner.
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A complete archive of reviews of works by Gordon Getty, including performances and recordings.
David Patrick Stearns: GETTY Goodbye, Mr Chips
Getty the librettist allows ample leeway to Getty the composer, whose neo-tonal language – more respected now than 20 years ago – is readily comparable to Gian Carlo Menotti’s melodic but not necessarily tuneful idiom. Getty doesn’t aim to please; he aims to move. Talking to their deceased loved ones is a way of life for some – and in the case of Mr Chips, Kathie answers back, making her a pervasive after-death presence.
Read the full review on GramophoneBob Dieschburg: CD Review- Gordon Getty’s ‘Goodbye, Mr. Chips’
The score of Gordon Getty’s “Goodbye, Mr. Chips” breathes all the unpretentiously sweet melancholy of its many predecessors – from James Hilton’s 1933 novella of the same title to subsequent adaptations as, among others, radio plays and lavishly cast movie musicals.
Yet it is not exactly the feel-good opera advertised in Pentatone’s press release; rather, the eponymous Mr. Chips – “the teacher we all wish we’d had” – is a painfully grieving figure, an anachronism of sorts, happily projecting his nostalgia onto the devastating realities of the 20th century and its incumbent wars.
Read the full review on OperaWire