The Earbox: A 10-CD Retrospective

RELEASE
October 12, 1999
LABEL
Nonesuch
GENRES
Classical, Minimalism, Classical Crossover, Opera

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Track Listing

  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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