Release

John Adams Nixon In China

Elektra Nonesuch  ·  1988

Artist

John Adams

Title

Nixon In China

Label

Elektra Nonesuch – 7559-79177-2

Format

3× CD, Album + Box Set

Country

Europe

Released

Apr 1988

Tracklist

• Act I, Scene I
• 1-1 (Beginning)
• 1-2 "Soldiers Of Heaven Hold The Sky"
• 1-3 "The People Are The Heroes Now"
• 1-4 Landing Of The Spirit Of '76
• 1-5 "Your Flight Was Smooth, I Hope?"
• 1-6 "News Has A Kind Of Mystery:"
• Act I, Scene II
• 1-7 (Beginning)
• 1-8 "You Know We'll Meet With Your Confrere The Democratic Candidate If He Should Win"
• 1-9 "You've Said That There's A Certain Well-Known Tree"
• 1-10 "Founders Come First, Then Profiteers."
• 1-11 "We No Longer Need Confucius."
• 1-12 "Like The Ming Tombs."
• Act I, Scene III
• 1-13 (Beginning)
• 1-14 "Ladies And Gentlemen, Comrades And Friends,"
• 1-15 "Mr. Premier, Distinguished Guests,"
• 1-16 Cheers
• Act II, Scene I
• 2-1 (Beginning)
• 2-2 "Look Down At The Earth,"
• 2-3 "This Is Prophetic!"
• 2-4 "At Last The Weather's Warming Up."
• Act II, Scene II
• 2-5 (Beginning)
• 2-6 "Oh What A Day I Thought I'd Die!"
• 2-7 "Whip Her To Death!"
• 2-8 Tropical Storm
• 2-9 "Flesh Rebels"
• 2-10 "I Have My Brief"
• 2-11 "It Seems So Strange"
• 2-12 "I Am The Wife Of Mao Tse-Tung
• Act III
• 3-1 (Beginning)
• 3-2 "Some Men You Cannot Satisfy."
• 3-3 "I Am No One."
• 3-4 The Maos Dance
• 3-5 "Sitting Around The Radio"
• 3-6 "Let Us Examine What You Did."
• 3-7 "When I Woke Up I Dimly Realized The Jap Bombers Had Given Us A Miss—"
• 3-8 "I Have No Offspring."
• 3-9 "I Can Keep Still,"
• 3-10 "After That The Sweat Had Soaked My Uniform"
• 3-11 "Peking Watches The Stars,"
• 3-12 "You Won At Poker."
• 3-13 "I Am Old And I Cannot Sleep"