Steve Smith & Sanford Sylvan
The John Adams Earbox: A 10-CD Retrospective Lyrics
Disc 1
- I. Negative Love
- II. Because I Could Not Stop for Death
- III. Wild Nights
- I. Shaking & Trembling
- II. Hymning Slews
- III. Loops & Verses
- IV. A Final Shaking
Disc 2
- The Chairman Dances - John Adams, Adams, John
- First Movement
- Second Movement
- Third Movement: On the Dominant Divide
- Fearful Symmetries - John Adams, Adams, John
Disc 3
- Act 1. Scene 1. Opening
- Act 1. Scene 1. "Soldiers of heaven hold the sky"
- Act 1. Scene 1. "The people are the heroes now"
- Act 1. Scene 1. Landing of The Spirit of '76
- Act 1. Scene 1. "Your flight was smooth, I hope?"
- Act 1. Scene 1. "News has kind of mystery:"
- Act 1. Scene 3. "Ladies & gentlemen, Comrades & friends,"
- Act 1. Scene 3. "Mr. Premier, distinguished guests,"
- Act 1. Scene 3. Cheers
- Act 2. Scene 1. "This is prophetic!"
- Act 2. Scene 2. Opening
- Act 2. Scene 2. "Oh what a day / I thought I'd die!"
- Act 2. Scene 2. "Whip her to death!"
- Act 2. Scene 2. "I am the wife of Mao Tse-tung"
- Act 3. "Let us examine what you did."
- Act 3. "When I woke up"
- Act 3. "I have no offspring."
- Act 3. "I can keep still,"
- Act 3. "After that - / The sweat / Had soaked my uniform"
- Act 3. "Peking watches the stars,"
- Act 3. "You won at poker."
- Act 3. "I am old & cannot sleep"
Disc 4
- The Wound-Dresser - John Adams, Adams, John
- Christian Zeal & Activity - John Adams, Adams, John
- Five Songs: Thoreau - John Adams, Ives, Charles
- Five Songs: Down East - John Adams, Ives, Charles
- Five Songs: Cradle Song - John Adams, Ives, Charles
- Five Songs: At the River - John Adams, Ives, Charles
- Five Songs: Serenity - John Adams, Ives, Charles
- Eros Piano - John Adams, Adams, John
Disc 5
- Prologue. Chorus of the Exiled Palestinians
- Prologue. Chorus of the Exiled Jews
- Act 1. Scene 1. "It was just after 1:15"
- Act 1. Scene 1. " My Grandson Didi, who was two"
- Act 1. Scene 1. "Give these orders"
- Act 1. Scene 1. "So I said to my grandson"
- Act 1. Scene 1. "We are sorry for you"
- Act 1. Scene 1. Night Chorus
- Act 1. Scene 1. Chorus of Hagar & the Angel
- Act 2. Scene 1. "I've never been a violent man"
- Act 2. Scene 1. "You are always complaining of your suffering"
- Act 2. Scene 2. Aria of the Falling Body
- Act 2. Scene 2. Day Chorus
Disc 6
- Two Fanfares for Orchestra/Tromba Lontana - John Adams, Adams, John
- Two Fanfares for Orchestra/Short Ride in a Fast Machine - John Adams, Adams, John
- Common Tones in Simple Time - John Adams, Adams, John
- Part I. A Dream of Gold
- Part II. Soledades
Disc 7
- Part I.
- Part II. The Anfortas Wound
- Part III. Meister Eckhardt & Quackie
- Part I.
- Part II. Chaconne: "Body through which the dream flows"
- Part III. Toccare
Disc 8
- Mongrel Airs
- Aria with Walking Bass
- Roadrunner
- Tundra
- Disappointment Lake
- Hoodoo Zephyr
- The Perilous Shore
- Hoe-down
- Put Your Loving Arms Around Me
Disc 9
- Act 1. I Was Looking at the Ceiling & Then I saw the Sky
- Act 1. A Sermon on Romance
- Act 1. Consuelo's Dream
- Act 1. Mike's Song about Arresting a Particular Individual
- Act 1. Tiffany's Solo
- Act 1. Song about the On-Site Altercation
- Act 1. Song about the Bad Boys & the News
- Act 1. Your Honor My Client He's a Young Black Man
- Act 1. Leila's Song: Alone
- Act 2. Three Weeks & Still I'm Outta My Mind
- Act 2. Crushed by the Rock I Been Standing On
- Act 2. Dewain's Song of Liberation & Surprise
- Act 2. Este País! / This Country!
- Act 2. One Last Look at the Angel in Your Eyes
- Act 2. Finale