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  1. Prologue: Chorus Of Exiled Palestinians
  2. Prologue: Chorus Of Exiled Jews
  3. Act 1, scene 1: "It was just after one fifteen"
  4. Act 1, scene 1: "My Grandson Didi, who was two"
  5. Act 1, scene 1: "Give these orders"
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  1. Prologue: Chorus Of Exiled Palestinians
  2. Prologue: Chorus Of Exiled Jews
  3. Act 1, scene 1: "It was just after one fifteen"
  4. Act 1, scene 1: "My Grandson Didi, who was two"
  5. Act 1, scene 1: "Give these orders"
  6. Act 1, scene 1: "So I said to my grandson"
  7. Act 1, scene 1: "We are sorry for you"
  8. Act 1, scene 1: Ocean Chorus
  9. Act 1, scene 2: "Now it is night"
  10. Act 1, scene 2: "I think if you could talk like this"
  11. Act 1, scene 2: "I have often reflected that this is no ship"
  12. Act 1, scene 2: "I kept my distance"
  13. Act 1, scene 2: "Those birds flying above us"
  14. Act 1, scene 2: Night Chorus
  15. Act 2: Hagar Chorus
  16. Act 2, scene 1: "Come here. Look"
  17. Act 2, scene 1: "I've never been a violent man"
  18. Act 2, scene 1: "You are always complaining of your suffering"
  19. Act 2, scene 1: "I must have been hysterical"
  20. Act 2, scene 1: "It is as if our earthly life were spent miserably"
  21. Act 2, scene 1: Desert Chorus
  22. Act 2, scene 2: "My one consolation"
  23. Act 2, scene 2: Klinghoffer's death
  24. Act 2, scene 2: "Every fifteen minutes, one more will be shot"
  25. Act 2, scene 2: Aria of the Falling Body (Gymnopédie)
  26. Act 2, scene 2: Day Chorus
  27. Act 2, scene 3: "Mrs. Klinghoffer, please sit down"
  28. Act 2, scene 3: "You embraced them!"
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The creations of post-classical composers yield a treasure trove for the adventurous ear. John Adams, a West Coast composer, gives the world a wealth of new compositions through the San Francisco orchestra. His post-modern 1991 opera "The Death of Klinghoffer," a modern tale of terrorism, is one such work. The choruses from this modern tale of Middle East mayhem are as powerful as Verdi's mourning of the Jews in "Nabucco." The Nonesuch label brings these choruses with an equally haunting Adams work on "Harmonium/The ...

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John Adams: The Death of Klinghoffer 1992, Nonesuch

UPC: 075597928129

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