Woman

About Woman

Woman is an album by Burt Bacharach in collaboration with the Houston Symphony Orchestra, released in 1979 on A&M Records. It was recorded live by Bacharach and the orchestra during a four-hour recording session on November 2, 1978, at Jones Hall in Houston, Texas. The project was originally conceived by Bacharach and Michael Woolcock. Guest vocalists included Carly Simon on the song "I Live In The Woods", Libby Titus on the song "Riverboat", and Sally Stevens on the song "There Is Time".

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Critical reception

The Washington Post called the album "an ambitious but mostly ignored collection of jazzlike orchestra music performed by the Houston Symphony." The Rolling Stone Album Guide called it a "semi-classical epic" and Bacharach's "most ambitious work."

Track listing

All tracks composed by Burt Bacharach; except where indicated

"Summer of '77" – 3:55

"Woman" – 7:07

"Riverboat" (Bacharach, Libby Titus) – 3:26

"Magdalena" – 6:54

"New York Lady" – 6:31

"There Is Time" (Bacharach, Sally Stevens) – 6:36

"The Dancing Fool" (Bacharach, Anthony Newley) – 2:12

"I Live in the Woods" (Bacharach, Carly Simon, Libby Titus) – 6:04

Personnel

Burt Bacharach - vocals, arrangements, conductor, keyboards

Micheal Woolcock, Armin Steiner - producers

Libby Titus - vocals on "Riverboat"

Carly Simon - vocals on "I Live in the Woods"

Sally Stevens - vocals on "There is Time"

Houston Symphony Orchestra - musicians

Ronald Patterson - concertmaster

Guest Instrumentalists

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Mayuto Correa - percussion

Robben Ford - guitar

Arthur Munson - guitar

Richard Greene - electric violin

Erno Neufeld - solo violin on "There is Time"

Milcho Levien - keyboards

Warren Luening - first solo trumpet

Bobby Shew - second solo trumpet

David Parlato - fender bass

John Phillips - alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, flute and oboe

Grady Tate - drums

Ann White, Marti McCall, Sally Stevens - backing vocals

Technical

Armin Steiner, Linda Tyler - engineer

Jack Crimes - chief engineer

Mark Eshelman, Ricky Sanchez - assistant engineers

Michael Reese - mastering engineer

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Notable quotes

“If perticuliar care and attention is not paid to the Laidies we are determined to foment a Rebelion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any Laws in which we have no voice, or Representation.”
— Abigail Adams, Letter to John Adams (31 March 1776)
“Woman is the crowning excellence of God's creation, the shadow of the gods. Man the god's creation only. Woman is light, man is shadow. Could the light do without the shadow?”
— Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, Krishna Kanta's Will (tr. Miriam S. Knight, 1895), pt. 2, ch. 15
“More women are wooed for their complexions than for their characters.”
— Arnold Haultain, Hints for Lovers (1909), pp. 29, 41, 47, 116, 150
“A Carvalho le molestaba tomar el sol como un lagarto, Pero Teresa demostraba una gran solidaridad con el termostato habitual en todas las mujeres, animales de sangre fría que necesitan el sol y son capaces de someterse a sus rayos con la beatífica expresión del comulgante o incluso con el éxtasis del mistico dispuesto a la entrega divina.”
— Carvalho did not like lying in the sun like a lizard, but Teresa showed that her body thermostat was the same as that of all other women, cold-blooded creatures who need the sun and are capable of soaking up its rays with the beatific expression of someone taking communion, or even the ecstatic look of a mystic surrendering to the godhead.
“Women are as roses; whose fair flower, Being once display’d, doth fall that very hour.”
— William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night (c. 1601–2), act 2, sc. 4
“A woman is an angel at ten, a saint at fifteen, a devil at forty, and a witch at fourscore.”
— English proverb, in (1620); cited in G. L. Apperson (ed.) English Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases (1929), p. 703

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