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The John Adams Earbox: A 10-CD Retrospective

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1. I. Negative Love
2. II. Because I Could Not Stop for Death
3. III. Wild Nights
4. I. Shaking & Trembling
5. II. Hymning Slews
6. III. Loops & Verses
7. IV. A Final Shaking
8. The Chairman Dances, foxtrot for orchestra
9. First Movement
10. Second Movement
11. Third Movement: On the Dominant Divide
12. Fearful Symmetries, for orchestra
13. Act 1. Scene 1. Opening
14. Act 1. Scene 1. "Soldiers of heaven hold the sky"
15. Act 1. Scene 1. "The people are the heroes now"
16. Act 1. Scene 1. Landing of The Spirit of '76
17. Act 1. Scene 1. "Your flight was smooth, I hope?"
18. Act 1. Scene 1. "News has kind of mystery:"
19. Act 1. Scene 3. "Ladies & gentlemen, Comrades & friends,"
20. Act 1. Scene 3. "Mr. Premier, distinguished guests,"
21. Act 1. Scene 3. Cheers
22. Act 2. Scene 1. "This is prophetic!"
23. Act 2. Scene 2. Opening
24. Act 2. Scene 2. "Oh what a day
    I thought I'd die!"
25. Act 2. Scene 2. "Whip her to death!"
26. Act 2. Scene 2. "I am the wife of Mao Tse-tung"
27. Act 3. "Let us examine what you did."
28. Act 3. "When I woke up"
29. Act 3. "I have no offspring."
30. Act 3. "I can keep still,"
31. Act 3. "After that -
    The sweat
    Had soaked my uniform"
32. Act 3. "Peking watches the stars,"
33. Act 3. "You won at poker."
34. Act 3. "I am old & cannot sleep"
35. The Wound-Dresser, for baritone & orchestra
36. Christian Zeal and Activity, for chamber ensemble
37. Thoreau, song for voice & piano, S. 373 (K. 6B52)
38. Down East, song for voice & piano, S. 236 (K. 6B60b)
39. Cradle Song, song for voice & piano, S. 233 (K. 6B60a)
40. At the River, song for voice & piano, S. 214 (K. 6B54)
41. Serenity, song for voice & piano, S. 347 (K. 6B60d)
42. Eros Piano, for piano & orchestra
43. Prologue. Chorus of the Exiled Palestinians
44. Prologue. Chorus of the Exiled Jews
45. Act 1. Scene 1. "It was just after 1:15"
46. Act 1. Scene 1. " My Grandson Didi, who was two"
47. Act 1. Scene 1. "Give these orders"
48. Act 1. Scene 1. "So I said to my grandson"
49. Act 1. Scene 1. "We are sorry for you"
50. Act 1. Scene 1. Night Chorus
51. Act 1. Scene 1. Chorus of Hagar & the Angel
52. Act 2. Scene 1. "I've never been a violent man"
53. Act 2. Scene 1. "You are always complaining of your suffering"
54. Act 2. Scene 2. Aria of the Falling Body (Gymnopédie)
55. Act 2. Scene 2. Day Chorus
56. Tromba Lontana, fanfare for orchestra
57. Short Ride in a Fast Machine, fanfare for orchestra
58. Common Tones in Simple Time for orchestra
59. Part I. A Dream of Gold
60. Part II. Soledades
61. Part I.
62. Part II. The Anfortas Wound
63. Part III. Meister Eckhardt & Quackie
64. Part I.
65. Part II. Chaconne: "Body through which the dream flows"
66. Part III. Toccare
67. Mongrel Airs
68. Aria with Walking Bass
69. Roadrunner
70. Tundra
71. Disappointment Lake
72. Hoodoo Zephyr
73. The Perilous Shore
74. Hoe-down (Mad Cow)
75. Put Your Loving Arms Around Me
76. Act 1. I Was Looking at the Ceiling & Then I saw the Sky
77. Act 1. A Sermon on Romance
78. Act 1. Consuelo's Dream
79. Act 1. Mike's Song about Arresting a Particular Individual
80. Act 1. Tiffany's Solo
81. Act 1. Song about the On-Site Altercation
82. Act 1. Song about the Bad Boys & the News
83. Act 1. Your Honor My Client He's a Young Black Man
84. Act 1. Leila's Song: Alone (Again or at Last)
85. Act 2. Three Weeks & Still I'm Outta My Mind
86. Act 2. Crushed by the Rock I Been Standing On
87. Act 2. Dewain's Song of Liberation & Surprise
88. Act 2. Este País!
    This Country!
89. Act 2. One Last Look at the Angel in Your Eyes
90. Act 2. Finale
91. Lollapalooza, for orchestra
92. Judah to Ocean
93. Toot Nipple
94. Dogjam
95. Pavane: She's so Fine
96. Rag the Bone
97. Habanera
98. Stubble Crotchet
99. Hammer & Chisel
100. Alligator Escalator
101. Ständchen: The Little Serenade
102. Judah to Ocean (reprise)
103. Slonimsky's Earbox, for orchestra

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