John Adams 2017-02-11 CD Amsterdam Soundboard

CD1 Act I Scene 1 01. Beginning 3:03 02. Soldiers of heaven hold the sky (Chorus) 2:50 03. The people are the heroes now (Chorus) 2:46 04. Landing of the Spirit of '76 1:54 05. Your flight was smooth, I hope? (Chou, Nixon) 1:58 06. News has a kind of mystery (Nixon, Chou, Kissinger, Chorus) 7:19 Scene 2 07. Beginning - I can't talk very well. My throat? (Mao, Nixon, Chou, Kissinger, 3 Secretaries) 4:37 08. You know we'll meet with your confrere, the Democratic candidate (Mao, Nixon, Kissinger) 2:15 09. You've said that there's a certain well-known tree (Chou, Nixon, Mao, Kissinger, 3 Secretaries) 2:48 10. Founders come first, then profiteers (Mao, 3 Secretaries, Nixon, Chou, Kissinger) 6:43 11. We no longer need Confucius (Mao, 3 Secretaries) 3:11 12. Like the Ming Tombs (Nixon, 3 Secretaries, Mao, Chou) 5:25 13. Beginning - The night is young (Nixon, Pat, Chou, Kissinger, Chorus) 6:00 14. Ladies and Gentlemen, Comrades and Friends (Chou, Chorus, Pat, Kissinger) 6:46 15. Mr. Premier, distinguished guests (Nixon, Chorus) 2:47 16. Cheers! (Chorus, Nixon, Chou, Pat, Kissinger) 3:46 CD2 Act II Scene 1 01. Beginning - I don't daydream and don't look back (Pat) 3:35 02. Look down at the earth (Chorus, Pat, 3 Secretaries) 5:08 03. This is prophetic! (Pat) 6:49 04. At last the weather's warming up (Pat, Chorus) 3:43 Scene 2 05. Beginning - Young as we are (3 Secretaries) 3:00 06. O what a day I thought I'd die! (Kissinger as Lao Szu, Chorus as Ching-hua, 3 Secretaries, Pat) 4:53 07. Whip her to death! (Kissinger as Lao Szu, Pat, Nixon) 2:31 08. Tropical Storm: There there, there there (Pat) 4:26 09. Flesh Rebels (Chorus as Militia) 3:18 10. I have my brief (Kissinger as Lao Szu, Nixon) 1:09 11. It seems so strange (Chorus as Ching-hua, Chiang Ch'ing, Pat, Nixon, 3 Secretaries) 2:57 12. I am the wife of Mao Tse-tung (Chiang Ch'ing, Chorus) 5:36 Act III 13. Beginning 1:11 14. Some men you cannot satisfy (Kissinger, Nixon, Pat, Chou, Chiang Ch'ing) 3:17 15. I am no one (Mao, Chou, Kissinger, Chiang Ch'ing, Pat) 4:00 16. The Maos Dance (Chiang Ch'ing, Mao, Pat, Nixon, Chou) 1:58 17. Sitting around the radio (Nixon, Pat) 1:15 18. Let us examine what you did (Mao, Chiang Ch'ing, Chou) 2:55 19. When I woke up I dimly realized the Jap Bombers had given us a miss (Nixon, Pat) 1:12 20. I have no offspring (Chou, Mao, Chiang Ch'ing) 1:51 21. I can keep still (Chiang Ch'ing) 2:31 22. After that the sweat had soaked my uniform (Nixon, Pat, Chiang Ch'ing, Mao, Chou) 2:13 23. Peking watches the stars (Chiang Ch'ing, Mao) 2:36 24. You won at poker (Pat, Nixon, Chiang Ch'ing, Mao) 3:33 25. I am old and I cannot sleep (Chou) 4:03 David Wilson-Johnson - baritone (Chou En-lai) Robin Adams - baritone (Richard Nixon) Olle Persson - bass-baritone (Henry Kissinger) Evanna Lai - mezzosoprano (Nancy T'ang, first Secretary of Mao) Iris van Wijnen - mezzosoprano (Second Secretary of Mao) Helena Rasker - mezzosoprano (Third Secretary of Mao) Michael Weinius - tenor (Mao Tse-tung) Janis Kelly - soprano (Pat Nixon) Yun-Jeong Lee - soprano (Chian Ch'ing)