Acquaviva and His Orchestra A Man and His Dream [1958]

MGM Records E3696

Acquaviva's conceptual artistic approach (Excerpt from the liner notes):
"Men dream of many things during the course of their lives – fame, wealth, love, the achievement of ideals, the establishment of important ideas. But, always, in each man's life there is one dominant dream, one he strives after more than the others.

My own special dream as I grew up was to conduct a special sort of orchestra in a special sort of music. In my reviews, I visualized a symphonically-seated orchestra that would bring to "pop" music all of the dazzling musical coloration, all of the thrilling mass of composers like Tchaikovsky, Debussy, Ravel, Rimsky-Korsakov and other of the immortals. Somewhere, I knew there was possible a bridge between classical and "pop" selections – I hoped to help erect that bridge.

As I built a career as a professional musician, I met many other who shared my ideas and were excited by their possibilities. There were composers who wanted to expand their scope of expression, arrangers who had strikingly original ideas for orchestrating. Music, after all, had to exist before we could convince anyone to sponsor the creation of a huge orchestra, so we set to work. The first results of these experimentations were set forth in an MGM long-playing set called "Music For Your Midnight Mood." You, the public, seemed to like our "new" music very much. The success of that recording told me that my dream had come true." ~ Acquaviva ~

Tracklist:
01 Curtain Time
02 Always The Sea
03 This Might Be Love
04 Everyday
05 One Moment More
06 New York In A Nutshell
07 A Man With A Dream ( From The Musical Production "Seventh Heaven)
08 Road Show
09 Alone With You
10 Am I In Love
11 Joni
12 Prayer For Peace