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WHEELER, S.: Construction of Boston (The) |
The Boston Cecilia’s concert performance of Scott Wheeler’s one-act opera on 1st April, 2007, in New England Conservatory’s Jordan Hall, was hailed with a Boston Globe headline: “CONSTRUCTION OF BOSTON is a love note to the city”. Drawing on a cast of brilliant, young, mostly Boston-based vocal artists, a chorus of established reputation in music old and new, and an outstanding orchestra comprised of first rank professional instrumentalists, Wheeler’s witty, first foray into the operatic genre got a brilliant reading under the baton of veteran conductor Donald Teeters: “Teeters led everything with remarkable sensitivity to both text and architecture” (Boston Phoenix).
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Wheeler, Scott
Koch, Kenneth, lyricist(s)
The Construction of Boston
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Prologue: I am the Opera, here to explain myself (Opera)
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Hello, Sam (Henry, Sam)
00:03:49
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You speak of one men are not fit to know (The Spirit of Boston)
00:01:25
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Sea Interlude I
00:00:49
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Primeval Pastoral - How strange! What freshness steals across my brow (Chorus)
00:02:32
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Song: How happy I am now, fat as a cow (Beacon Hill) - The light summer day (Chorus)
00:00:56
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Hail Populator (Chorus, Rauchenberg)
00:01:19
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Dark afternoons in Autumn (Chorus)
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I'd almost swear that I can hear the weather (Narrator, Storm, Noon, Dawn, Rauschenberg, Chorus, Moonlight)
00:03:53
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And now I have to stock the city up with people (Rauschenberg, Chorus)
00:02:05
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Veni Tinguely Spiritus: Tinguely, Spirit of the Air (Chorus) - I am arrived! (Tinguely)
00:01:20
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Ah, what a lovely layout you have here! (Tinguely, Chorus)
00:01:28
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But now we need more space! (Tinguely)
00:02:19
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Boston, all that I can say is, it's grand to be a bay! (Back Bay) - Now you're the town (Chorus)
00:03:03
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Bay Bay, you're lucky (Tinguely) - Oh hear, how that noise (Chorus)
00:00:59
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Sea Interlude II
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Fairest Tinguely, we the Wharfs (Wharf Chorus, Tinguely, Water Chorus)
00:02:37
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See how the smiling city take its shape (Chorus, Rauschenberg, Niki)
00:02:08
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What this town needs is beauty (Niki, Tinguely)
00:02:11
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Men say she has a magic pistol (Chorus, Niki)
00:01:45
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I bring beauty and detail (Niki)
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She'll shoot up the city (Chorus)
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And now, at last, my time is past (Niki)
00:01:39
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We who feel our new creation (Chorus, Niki)
00:03:17
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Niki, all this city's Buildings (Tinguely, Rauschenberg, Niki)
00:01:09
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Now, citizens, sunset cover you (Niki, Tinguely, Rauschenberg)
00:03:19
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Total Playing Time: 00:59:09 |
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Composer(s):
Wheeler, Scott
Lyricist(s):
Koch, Kenneth
Conductor(s):
Teeters, Donald
Orchestra(s):
Boston Cecilia Orchestra
Choir(s):
Boston Cecilia Chorus
Artist(s):
Anker, Elizabeth; Blandy, Charles; DeLoach, Marcus; Hite, William; Nafziger, Sharla; Nomura, Christopheren; River, Krista; Swistro, Christine
Label: Naxos Series: Opera Classics Genre: Opera
Catalogue No: 8.669018
Barcode: 0730099691826
Physical Release: 03/2008
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