Nixon in China
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Performer: Thomas HampsonEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1990-10-25
Music Label: Nonesuch
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Act I, Scene I: Beginning
- Act I, Scene I: Soldiers of Heaven Hold the Sky
- Act I, Scene I: The People Are the Heroes Now
- Act I, Scene I: Landing of the Spirit of '76
- Act I, Scene I: Your Flight Was Smooth, I Hope?
- Act I, Scene I: News Has a Kind of Mystery
- Act I, Scene II: Beginning
- Act I, Scene II: You Know We'll Meet With You Confrere the ...
- Act I, Scene II: You've Said That There's a Certain Well-Known Tree
- Act I, Scene II: Founders Come First, Then Profiteers
- Act I, Scene II: We No Longer Need Confucius
- Act I, Scene II: Like the Ming Tombs
- Act I, Scene III: Beginning
- Act I, Scene III: Ladies and Gentlemen, Comrades and Friends
- Act I, Scene III: Mr. Premier, Distinguished Guests
- Act I, Scene III: Cheers
- Act II, Scene I: Beginning
- Act II, Scene I: Look Down at the Earth
- Act II, Scene I: This Is Prophetic!
- Act II, Scene I: At Last the Weather's Warming Up
- Act II, Scene II: Beginning
- Act II, Scene II: Oh What a Day I Thought I'd Die!
- Act II, Scene II: Whip Her to Death!
- Act II, Scene II: Tropical Storm
- Act II, Scene II: Flesh Rebels
- Act II, Scene II: I Have My Brief
- Act II, Scene II: It Seems So Strange
- Act II, Scene II: I Am the Wife of Mao Tse-Tung
- Act III: Beginning
- Act III: Some Men You Cannot Satisfy
- Act III: I Am No One
- Act III: The Maos Dance
- Act III: Sitting Around the Radio
- Act III: Let Us Examine What You Did
- Act III: When I Woke Up I Dinly Realized the Jap Bombers Had Given ...
- Act III: I Have No Offspring
- Act III: I Can Keep Still
- Act III: After That the Sweat Had Soaked My Uniform
- Act III: Peking Watches the Stars
- Act III: You Won at Poker
- Act III: I Am Old and I Cannot Sleep
Music reviews of Nixon in China
Music Review: Composer John Adams revisited
Rating: 4 Stars
The recent production of John Adam's newest opera "Dr. Aromic", about personal events leading up to the Trinity Bomb Test at Los Alamos, has generated interest in an earlier opera, "Nixon in China", which had been staged in Huston decades ago. "Dr. Atomic" has been staged in San Francisco, Amsterdam and most recently by the Metropolitan Opera in New York. "Dr. Atomic", has been telecast in HD into movie houses.
The CD audio album of "Nixon in China" shows how much John Adams has evolved from his "minialist" roots of those earlier years. The album includes a libretto. (It always amazes me that English text is somtimes not provided for English language opera, as if the listener can capture every singing syllable.) The music is accessible to general audiences, who might think modern serious music is unapproachable. This is not Arnold Schoenberg. For the curious this may be a useful introduction to "new" opera, which is neither bewildering nor elitist.
I have fond memories of the PBS telecast of "Nixon in China". One can relive the experience through this CD album, as I did.
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