Label: Folkways Records – FC 7588
Format: Vinyl, LP
Country: US
Released: 1965
Genre: Children's, Stage & Screen
Style: Story
New York City–based Theatre A La Carte performs the children’s musical “Emperor’s Nightingale,” adapted from Hans Christian Andersen’s charming story “The Nightingale.” Subtitled “A Musical Fantasy for Children,” the play tells the story of an ancient Chinese emperor suffering from insomnia, who tries to regain the ability to sleep with the help of his daughter, his three advisors, and a magic nightingale. His advisors attempt to fool him by constructing a mechanical nightingale to lull him to sleep, but the mechanical bird fails. The daughter then seeks the real nightingale in the forest. With the aid of a magic feather and a magic chant, she finds the nightingale, and the emperor is able to sleep again.
Tracklist
1 Without Sleep
2 Who Can She Be?
3 Ornithology
4 Pretty Things My Father Gave Me
5 Ambition
6 We've Made You A Bird
7 Mechanical Bird Ballet
8 A Good Chinese Girl
9 Whistle Song
10 Nightingale Ballet
11 All's Well That Ends Well
