Audio Samples for Kate

A Stake in the Ground: Audio Samples

The new opening music. The first few measures anticipate Victor's entrance music. The curtain goes up when the waltz music begins. The scene is now couples dancing in a hotel ballroom.)

The old opening music. A square dance in the town plaza.

I'll choose between the following options:
Note: in the live recording end of Scene 1, uncle Henry was husband John, thus the word differences. The words Victor sings when the baritone voice enters in Scene 2 are "You are never alone, my beauty."

The elegy interlude from Scene 1 to 2

The dream-nightmare transition from Scene 1 to 2