Aldridge/ Boggs/ Florentine Opera Company - Elmer Gantry AEC Music Hydra reached the Top 10

Hydra reached the Top 10 on Billboard's Hard Rock Albums chart and features the fearsome single

Presenting the trumpeter at the helm of an excellent quintet with James Spaulding (alto saxophone & flute)

'Oh My Love' sounds equally haunting and is one of several great Detroit productions co-opted onto Mainstream

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Aldridge/ Boggs/ Florentine Opera Company - Elmer Gantry AEC Music Hydra reached the Top 10Set just before World War I, Sinclair Lewiss incendiary novel Elmer Gantry tells a story of old time religion, illicit romance and revenge. Robert Aldridge and Herschel Garfeins operatic adaptation is a marvelous amalgam of toe tapping accessibility (Opera News) full of hymns, gospel songs, marches and dance, evoking the period in a score which echoes Gershwin and Copland. This all American production combines a first rate cast of singers and a world