John Adams: The Chairman Dances (1987)

John Adams: The Chairman Dances (1987)
Classical | EAC (APE & CUE) | 204 MB
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Combining the vocabulary of classical dance with a suggestion of traditional Chinese lyric gestures and pageantry, The Chairman Dances builds on the repetitiveness of its minimalist score and boldly colorful staging.

It features a lead dancer and a corps of 16 women attired in brilliantly colored Chinese-style costumes, with decor by Rouben Ter-Arutunian.

The ballet was inspired by a scene originally written for, but not included in, the production of Adams’ opera, Nixon in China, that of Chairman Mao dancing with his future bride, the movie star Chiang Ch’ing.

Tracklisting

1 Foxtrot For Orchestra: The Chairman Dances
2 Christian Zeal And Activity
3 Two Fanfares For Orchestra: Tromba lontana
4 Two Fanfares For Orchestra: Short Ride In A Fast Machine
5 Common Tones In Simple Time

San Francisco Symphony Orchestra
Edo de Waart, conductor

Nonesuch 9 79144-2

Here be Mao;

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John Adams: Grand Pianola Music / Steve Reich: Vermont Counterpoint (1985)

John Adams: Grand Pianola Music / Steve Reich: Vermont Counterpoint (1985)
Classical | EAC, APE & CUE) | 243 MB
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Grand Pianola Music (1982) is scored for a small orchestra of winds, percussion, sopranos, and two pianos, and has a light-hearted, humorous, and, at times, sharply parodistic edge.

The work is something akin to a musical ex¬orcism: In it John Adams has brought together a variety of elements from his musical past, including the marches and band music he played in his youth, a touch of Gospel, some Beethovenian piano writing-and even a patently diatonic theme that is reworked until it becomes an archetypal minimalist figure.

Steve Reich’s Vermont Counterpoint, dedicated to Betty Freeman, is scored for three alto flutes, three flutes, and three piccolos, plus two solo lines in each of which the soloist plays, one at a time, all three instruments.

For this recording, Ransom Wilson taped all nine ensemble parts plus one solo line, and then added the “live” solo line as the final touch.

Tracklisting

John Adams
Grand Pianola Music
for 3 sopranos, 2 pianos, winds, brass & percussion 32:08

Pamela Wood Ambush, soprano
Jane Bryden, soprano
Kimball Wheeler, soprano
Ursula Oppens, piano
Alan Feinberg, piano
Solisti New York
Ransom Wilson, conductor

1. 1st & 2nd Movement
2. 3rd Movement (”On the Dominany Divide”)

Steve Reich
3. Vermont Counterpoint, for piccolo, flutes & tape 8:49

Ransom Wilson, flute

This work is scored for three alto flutes, three flutes, and three piccolos, plus two solo lines in each of which the soloist plays all three instruments. In performance all but one solo line are intended to be heard on tape. On this recording Ransom Wilson plays all eleven parts.

4. Eight Lines (revision of “Octet”), for chamber orchestra 18:12

Solisti New York
Ransom Wilson, conductor

Angel 7 47331-2

Here’s Stevie;

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John Adams: I Was Looking at the Ceiling & Then I Saw the Sky (1998)

John Adams: I Was Looking at the Ceiling & Then I Saw the Sky (1998)
Classical | EAC, APE & CUE) | 349 MB
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Composer’s Notes;

I was looking at the ceiling and then I saw the sky was a quote from a survivor of the 1994 Northridge earthquake, a catastrophe that devastated a large part of the northern Los Angeles area.

The librettist June Jordan found this phrase in the Los Angeles Times and offered it to me as the title for what I wanted to be a Broadway-style show.

After composing two grand operas, “Nixon in China” and “The Death of Klinghoffer,” I’d realized that the only truly indigenous form of American musical theater was what we call, for lack of a more precise term, the “musical.”

My first appearance onstage as a child was in a small-town production of Rogers and Hammerstein’s “South Pacific”, with my mother acting the role of Bloody Mary.

In my youth I knew all the famous American shows more or less by heart, and my later discovery of “West Side Story” convinced me that this particular theatrical form could actually attain the level of genuine art. Another American icon, Gershwin’s “Porgy and Bess”, also stood as a model although as a theaterical entity it had serious formal problems.

John Adams
I Was Looking at the Ceiling & Then I Saw the Sky
A song play in two acts

Music by John Adams
Libretto by June Jordan
Directed by Peter Sellars

1. Ensemble – I was Looking at the Ceiling and then I Saw the Sky 8:05
2. A Sermon on Romance 3:11
3. Consuelo’s Dream 4:55
4. Mike’s Song about Arresting a Particular Individual 3:22
5. Tiffany’s Solo 4:52
6. Song About The On-Site Altercation 2:51
7. Song About The Bad Boys And The News 6:20
8. Your Honor My Client He’s A Young Black Man 5:40
9. Leila’s song: Alone (Again or at Last) 4:17
10. Three Weeks and I’m Still Outta My Mind 5:12
11. Crushed by the Rock I Been Standing On 4:37
12. Dewain’s Song of Liberation and Surprise 5:29
13. Este Pais/This Country 4:27
14. One Last Look at the Angel in your Eyes 2:00
15. Finale

Audra McDonald, Soprano (Consuelo)
Richard Muenz, Baritone (Mike)
Marin Mazzie, Soprano (Tiffany)
Michael McElroy, Voice (Dewain)
Welly Yang, Voice (Rick)
Angela Teek, Voice (Leila)
Darius De Haas, Voice (David)

Seppo Kantonen, Piano
Marja Mutru, Keyboard
Markku Tabell, Keyboard
Janne Murto, Saxophone
Kari Tenkanen, Clarinet
Hannu Rantanen, Electric Double Bass
Jari Nieminen, Guitar
Jari-Pekka Karvonen, Percussion
John Adams, Conductor

Nonesuch 79473-2

Here’s the sky;

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John Adams – Gnarly Buttons & John’s Book of Alleged Dances (1998)

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