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CD1 (total time 55:49)01. Broadcast presentation/ Intro Act I 9:34Act IScene 102. Beginning 2:43 03. Soldiers of heaven hold the sky (Chorus) 3:34 04. The people are the heroes now (Chorus) 2:27 05. Landing of the Spirit of '76 2:51 06. Your flight was smooth, I hope? (Chou, Nixon) 1:29 07. News has a kind of mystery (Nixon, Chou, Kissinger, Chorus) 7:07 Scene 208. Beginning - I can't talk very well. My throat? (Mao, Nixon, Chou, Kissinger, 3 Secretaries) 4:32 09. You know we'll meet with your confrere, the Democratic candidate (Mao, Nixon, Kissinger) 2:22 10. You've said that there's a certain well-known tree (Chou, Nixon, Mao, Kissinger, 3 Secretaries) 2:57 11. Founders come first, then profiteers (Mao, 3 Secretaries, Nixon, Chou, Kissinger) 7:02 12. We no longer need Confucius (Mao, 3 Secretaries) 3:32 13. Like the Ming Tombs (Nixon, 3 Secretaries, Mao, Chou) 5:43 CD2 (total time 37:02)Scene 314. Beginning - The night is young (Nixon, Pat, Chou, Kissinger, Chorus) 6:51 15. Ladies and Gentlemen, Comrades and Friends (Chou, Chorus, Pat, Kissinger) 7:16 16. Mr. Premier, distinguished guests (Nixon, Chorus) 2:45 17. Cheers! (Chorus, Nixon, Chou, Pat, Kissinger) 3:48 18. Audience and broadcast presentation / Backstage interviews with James Maddalena and Janis Kelly 5:0819. Historical backgrounds 7:3120. Broadcast presentation 1:4021. Interview with Peter Sellars 1:58CD3 (total time 65:28)01. Broadcast presentation 7:3902. Backstage interview with John Adams 3:0403. Broadcast presentation 1:02Act IIScene 104. Beginning - I don't daydream and don't look back (Pat) 3:42 05. Look down at the earth (Chorus, Pat, 3 Secretaries) 5:51 06. This is prophetic! (Pat) 7:20 07. At last the weather's warming up (Pat, Chorus) 3:59 08. Broadcast presentation during intermission 2:17Scene 209. Beginning - Young as we are (3 Secretaries) 3:07 10. O what a day I thought I'd die! (Kissinger as Lao Szu, Chorus as Ching-hua, 3 Secretaries, Pat) 4:39 11. Whip her to death! (Kissinger as Lao Szu, Pat, Nixon) 3:00 12. Tropical Storm: There there, there there (Pat) 4:53 13. Flesh Rebels (Chorus as Militia) 3:12 14. I have my brief (Kissinger as Lao Szu, Nixon) 1:12 15. It seems so strange (Chorus as Ching-hua, Chiang Ch'ing, Pat, Nixon, 3 Secretaries) 2:58 16. I am the wife of Mao Tse-tung (Chiang Ch'ing, Chorus) 6:05 17. Audience and broadcast presentation 1:22CD4 (total time 46:37)01. Broadcast presentation 6:51Act III02. Beginning 1:12 03. Some men you cannot satisfy (Kissinger, Nixon, Pat, Chou, Chiang Ch'ing) 3:31 04. I am no one (Mao, Chou, Kissinger, Chiang Ch'ing, Pat) 3:52 05. The Maos Dance (Chiang Ch'ing, Mao, Pat, Nixon, Chou) 2:33 06. Sitting around the radio (Nixon, Pat) 1:25 07. Let us examine what you did (Mao, Chiang Ch'ing, Chou) 3:06 08. When I woke up I dimly realized the Jap Bombers had given us a miss (Nixon, Pat) 1:22 09. I have no offspring (Chou, Mao, Chiang Ch'ing) 2:00 10. I can keep still (Chiang Ch'ing) 2:26 11. After that the sweat had soaked my uniform (Nixon, Pat, Chiang Ch'ing, Mao, Chou) 2:20 12. Peking watches the stars (Chiang Ch'ing, Mao) 2:35 13. You won at poker (Pat, Nixon, Chiang Ch'ing, Mao) 3:28 14. I am old and I cannot sleep (Chou) 4:36 15. Broadcast outro 5:13
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