Wheeler: The Construction of Boston

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Performed by: Boston Cecilia Orchestra
Composed by: Scott Wheeler
Conducted by: Donald Teeters
Marcus DeLoach, baritone
Charles Blandy, tenor
Krista River, mezzo-soprano
Elizabeth Anker, alto
William Hite, tenor
Christine Swistro, soprano
Krista River, narrator
Christopheren Nomura, baritone
Sharla Nafziger, soprano


1.   Overture - 4:16
2.   Prologue: I am the Opera, here to explain myself (Opera) - 5:48
3.   Hello, Sam (Henry, Sam) - 3:49
4.   You speak of one men are not fit to know (The Spirit of Boston) - 1:24
5.   Sea Interlude I - 0:49
6.   Primeval Pastoral - How strange! What freshness steals across my brow (Chorus) - 2:32
7.   Song: How happy I am now, fat as a cow (Beacon Hill) - The light summer day (Chorus) - 0:56
8.   Hail Populator (Chorus, Rauchenberg) - 1:18
9.   Dark afternoons in Autumn (Chorus) - 1:18
10.   I'd almost swear that I can hear the weather (Narrator, Storm, Noon, Dawn, Rauschenberg, Chorus, Moonlight) - 3:53
11.   And now I have to stock the city up with people (Rauschenberg, Chorus) - 2:04
12.   Veni Tinguely Spiritus: Tinguely, Spirit of the Air (Chorus) - I am arrived! (Tinguely) - 1:20
13.   Ah, what a lovely layout you have here! (Tinguely, Chorus) - 1:27
14.   But now we need more space! (Tinguely) - 2:18
15.   Boston, all that I can say is, it's grand to be a bay! (Back Bay) - Now you're the town (Chorus) - 3:03
16.   Bay Bay, you're lucky (Tinguely) - Oh hear, how that noise (Chorus) - 0:59
17.   Sea Interlude II - 0:50
18.   Fairest Tinguely, we the Wharfs (Wharf Chorus, Tinguely, Water Chorus) - 2:37
19.   See how the smiling city take its shape (Chorus, Rauschenberg, Niki) - 2:08
20.   What this town needs is beauty (Niki, Tinguely) - 2:11
21.   Men say she has a magic pistol (Chorus, Niki) - 1:44
22.   I bring beauty and detail (Niki) - 2:08
23.   She'll shoot up the city (Chorus) - 0:47
24.   And now, at last, my time is past (Niki) - 1:39
25.   We who feel our new creation (Chorus, Niki) - 3:17
26.   Niki, all this city's Buildings (Tinguely, Rauschenberg, Niki) - 1:08
27.   Now, citizens, sunset cover you (Niki, Tinguely, Rauschenberg) - 3:18

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