Hadestown: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert

[Music] [Music] did you ever wonder what it's like on the underside [Music] [Music] [Music] winters nyan Chalmers hoard and use that high lonesome sound my husband bring me home down there it's a bunch of snails rather I'll be bored I'm gonna have to report to time just to entertain my give me morphine init and keeping a crate off the fruit of the vine takes a lot of Medicine [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] the king on the chromium throne until the bottom of a six [Music] on the road to hell there was a railroad and the car door open and a man step down everybody looked and everybody saw it was the same man we'd been singing about you're early I missed you mr. Haney this mighty killer kinda makes you wonder how it feels oh wow [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] thank you so so much we are thrilled to be here at your tiny desk this is the the cast and band of Hades town which is a musical on Broadway right now I'm the songwriter Aeneas Mitchell and Hades talk we're gonna do a few songs from the show Haiti Sun is based on Greek mythology it tells to love stories that the young lovers Orpheus and Eurydice and the immortal gods Hades and Persephone and you heard from some of the gods just now that was Kimberly Marable as um Persephone Andrey DeShields as the messenger god Hermes [Applause] and a brief a brief cameo by Hades Patrick page you'll see more of them and now we're going to um we're gonna meet our young lovers so this is um reef Carney as Orpheus even of lozada as Eurydice and the young lovers meeting for the very first time you wanna talk to her yes go on Orpheus yes don't come on too strong [Music] come home with me oh yeah the man is gonna marry you Orpheus is he always like this yes I'm here to see your name is like a melody a singer is that what you are I also play the lyre Oh a liar and a player to that many many men like you Oh No he's not like any man you've met tell her what you working on I'm working on a song it isn't finished [ __ ] when it's done and when I sing it come again come again spring will come when I haven't seen a spring or fall since I can't recall that's what I'm working on sound of fix what's wrong take what's broken make it home a song so beautiful it brings the world back in the tune back in the time the flowers when you become my wife he's crazy why would I become his wife maybe because he'll make you feel alive that's worth a lot what else you got [Music] Luva tell me if you can who's gonna bother wedding dance times being what they are Hana time all the rivers will sing along and they're gonna break their banks for us and put their gold generous all the flashing in the pen all to passion for your hand the prefers give us leva tell me if you're able who's gonna lay the wedding table times B when they are dock can't get in Shinra son all the trees gonna sing along they're gonna bend their branches down they left through the Palmer Brown the almond the apple and the sugar from the maple the trees gonna lay the wedding table [Music] [Music] so when you sing your song the one you're working on spring that will come again yes why don't you sing it then it isn't finished sing it you want to take me home yes sing the song [Music] [Music] how'd you do that I don't know songs not finished though even so it can do this I know you have to finish it [Music] who's gonna make the wedding Deb times being what they are ha [Music] all the birds gonna sing along he'll come flying [Music] the baloney star it's gonna make [Music] lay the letting tain rivers gonna give us the wedding back [Music] all right now we're gonna meet the fates the fates are these three ferocious ladies who act as the oven times the the the voice in the head of Eurydice and some other characters and kind of push people around this is Yvette Gonzales now said I'm Joelle Blackmon Kaituna dad Karns they're gonna they're gonna push Yuri to see into a very bad decision [Music] [Music] what you wanna do in the chips [Music] [Music] what [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] yeah you guys so Eurydice makes a bad decision she goes to Hades town and we're gonna do for you now the her song of regret in the underworld it's called flowers and I'm gonna kick it off and then pass the torch to you bah [Music] what I wanted was to fall asleep to close my eyes and disappear like head alone a stream a feather on the air [Music] lily-white and poppy red I trembled when he laid me out you won't feel the thing he says when you go down nothing gonna wake you [Music] dreams are sweet until men a kind flowers bloom until they rot and follow [Music] is anybody listen I [Music] nothing nothing gonna wait [Music] [Music] flowers I remember field of flowers soft beneath my heels walking in the Sun I remember someone someone lie my sight turned his face to mine and then I turned away into the shade [Music] if you ever walk in this way come and find me [Music] I [Music] [Applause] you guys thank you so much wish we could play all day but we just have one more song gonna get Patrick Paige back out here as Hades I'm eight months pregnant so I'm gonna move so he can and and before we go I want this is um over here on the keys and the accordion has been liam robinson liam is our our md and vocal arranger and i'm gonna ask them to introduce the beautiful band that we have with us today yeah let's give it up for the band we got Malcolm parson on cello over here on the bass is Chris tour Dini behind me Megan Gould on the violin hold it down in the corner is Ben parofsky on the drum hottest trombonist on Broadway we got Brian dry you got a Lucia seen as a on the guitar one more time for an ace Mitchell thank you so much i'ma leave you with this song this is sung by Hades the king of the underworld and it's just to avoid confusion I wrote this song in 2006 but it's called why we build the wall [Music] why do we build war my children my children why'd we build the wall how does the wall keep us free my children my children how does the wall keep us free who do we call the enemy my children my children who do we call the enemy [Music] [Music] because we have and they have not my children my children because they want what we have got [Music] [Music] [Music] what do we have that they should want my children my children what do we have that they should want [Music] and our work is never done children my children and the war number one poverty [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] support for NPR comes from State Farm

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Length: 26min 24sec (1584 seconds)

Published: Mon Jun 08 2020