Getty: Goodbye, Mr. Chips

PENTATONE releases Gordon Getty’s fourth opera, Goodbye, Mr. Chips, in a new studio recording featuring Nathan Granner, Melody Moore, Lester Lynch, and Kevin Short, as well as the San Francisco Boys Choir and Barbary Coast Orchestra, under the baton of Dennis Doubin. Based on the popular 1934 novella Goodbye, Mr. Chips and other stories by James Hilton, Goodbye, Mr. Chips tells the heart-warming story of a teacher at Brookfield, an all-boys English boarding school to which "Chips" dedicates most of his adult life. The opera chronicles Chips’ story of love, loss and learning over his decades-long tenure at Brookfield. Along the way, we’re reminded of the difference one good teacher can make as we watch Chips and his children, "thousands of them, and all boys," enrich each other’s lives.

CD 01
01 – Alma Mater, amnis pratum
02 – Chips was the soul of Brookfield
03 – Chips, my good fellow
04 – …there was Kathie
05 – Kathie, Kathie
06 – Chips, darling, it’s started
07 – Somehow I walked the three miles back to campus…
08 – I suppose I was the first
09 – Call-over_ Wayne, Weaver, Webb
10 – Sometimes the mood was somber
11 – There had been talk
12 – Poor Ralston!
13 – Kathie, you won’t remember
CD 02
01 – Intermezzo
02 – Ralston soon went on to better things
03 – Sir, my father was… (Dream sequence)
04 – Chips caught bronchitis…
05 – Chips had retired from teaching…
06 – When the Armistice came in nineteen-eighteen…
07 – Mrs. Wickett also told me…
08 – Thank you, Miss Bridges
09 – Well, you old ruffian…
10 – Alma mater – I thought I heard you