I Was Looking at the Ceiling and Then I Saw the Sky_音乐专辑
I Was Looking at the Ceiling and Then I Saw the Sky
又名: 约翰·亚当斯－音乐剧《仰望见天空》
表演者: Holst Sinfonietta/Klaus Simon/Martina Muhlpointner/Kimako Xavier Trotman/Markus Alexander Neisser/Jeannette Friedrich/Darius de Haas/Lilith Gardell/Jonas Holst
专辑类型: Doppel-CD
介质: Audio CD
发行时间: 2005-09-05
唱片数: 2
出版者: Naxos American
条形码: 0730099690324
专辑简介
It is difficult to categorise John Adams’s I was looking at the ceiling and then I saw the sky. Initially it seems easier to define it as what it is not. For example it is not an opera. To be sure, it consists exclusively of music. There are, however, no through-composed scenes, no dramatic arch-forms in music, such as distinguish operas, as with the two John Adams operas Nixon in China and The Death of Klinghoffer. We are not here concerned with that serious music expected in an opera, but rather with a varied series of popular styles: gospel follows pop, jazz ballad to rock number, Whitney Houston to Supertramp. There is no orchestra playing, but instead just a rock band of clarinet, saxophone, keyboards, guitar, bass and percussion.
Is this then a musical? Perhaps in a certain sense, but certainly not as the term is generally understood. Neither in the choice of material nor in form is it to be compared with My Fair Lady or Starlight Express, lacking the typical dialogue and the obligatory dance numbers. The social criticism of the material recalls rather the engaged political theatre of a Bertold Brecht that also contains songs.
The novelty and individuality of this song play is, rather, the abandonment of explanatory connecting dialogue, recitative, or anything like that: as in a songcycle - or a pop album - 23 songs in five-minute format follow one another. In its course, however, it tells a story, forms a theatre piece, a play. Although the piece takes over formal elements from all current musictheatre genres, the result is quite original.
曲目
JOHN ADAMS
I was Looking at the Ceiling and Then I Saw the Sky
01. Act I: I Was Looking at the Ceiling and Then I Saw the Sky (Tutti) 08:21
02. Act I: A Sermon on Romance (David, Leila) 03:09
03. Act I: Leila's Song of the Wise Young Women (Leila, Consuelo) 04:55
04. Act I: Solo in Sunlight (Dewain) 03:48
05. Act I: Donde estas? (Consuelo) 04:21
06. Act I: Mike's Song about Arresting a Particular Individual (Mike) 03:29
07. Act I: Tiffany's Solo (Tiffany) 04:47
08. Act I: Song about the On Site Altercation (Dewain, Tiffany, Mike, Leila) 02:54
09. Act I: Song about the Bad Boys and the News (Consuelo, Tiffany, Leila) 06:35
10. Act I: Your Honor My Client, He's a Young Black Man (Rick, Tiffany, Leila) 05:42
11. Act I: Consuelo's Dream (Consuelo) 06:10
12. Act I: Rick's Cross-Examination of Tiffany and Mike (Rick, Mike, Tiffany) 04:12
13. Act I: Song about Law School as the Natural Follow-up to Jail (Dewain, David) 04:50
14. Act I: Leila's Solo: Alone (Again or at last) (Lelila) 04:39
15. Act I: Song about the Sweet Majority Population of the World (David, Rick, Dewain, Mike) 04:44
Disc 2
01. Act II: Duet - 3 Weeks and Still I’m Outta My Mind (David, Leila) 05:06
02. Act II: Earthquake Sounds 01:01
03. Act II: Earthquake Music 03:07
04. Act II: Crushed by the Rock I Been Standing On (David, Tiffany, Rick, Consuelo) 04:25
05. Act II: Duet in the Middle of Terrible Duress (Mike, Tiffany, Rick) 11:29
06. Act II: Dewain's Song of Liberation and Surprise (Dewain) 06:24
07. Act II: Este Pais / This Country (Consuelo, Dewain) 04:33
08. Act II: 1 Last Look at the Angel in Your Eyes (Consuelo, Dewain) 02:19
09. Act II: Finale (Tutti) 04:58
Martina Muhlpointner, soprano / Kimako Xavier Trotman, baritone / Markus Alexander Neisser, tenor / Jeannette Friedrich, vocals / Darius de Haas, vocals / Lilith Gardell, vocals / Jonas Holst, vocals
Holst Sinfonietta
Klaus Simon, Conductor
