Wheeler, S.: Construction of Boston (The) - CD

Scott Wheeler

The Construction of Boston (1988)

 

1. Overture

00:04:17

 

2. Prologue: I am the Opera, here to explain myself (Opera)

00:05:47

 

3. Hello, Sam (Henry, Sam)

00:03:49

 

4. You speak of one men are not fit to know (The Spirit of Boston)

00:01:25

 

5. Sea Interlude I

00:00:49

 

6. Primeval Pastoral - How strange! What freshness steals across my brow (Chorus)

00:02:32

 

7. Song: How happy I am now, fat as a cow (Beacon Hill) - The light summer day (Chorus)

00:00:56

 

8. Hail Populator (Chorus, Rauchenberg)

00:01:19

 

9. Dark afternoons in Autumn (Chorus)

00:01:18

 

10. I'd almost swear that I can hear the weather (Narrator, Storm, Noon, Dawn, Rauschenberg, Chorus, Moonlight)

00:03:53

 

11. And now I have to stock the city up with people (Rauschenberg, Chorus)

00:02:05

 

12. Veni Tinguely Spiritus: Tinguely, Spirit of the Air (Chorus) - I am arrived! (Tinguely)

00:01:20

 

13. Ah, what a lovely layout you have here! (Tinguely, Chorus)

00:01:28

 

14. But now we need more space! (Tinguely)

00:02:19

 

15. Boston, all that I can say is, it's grand to be a bay! (Back Bay) - Now you're the town (Chorus)

00:03:03

 

16. Bay Bay, you're lucky (Tinguely) - Oh hear, how that noise (Chorus)

00:00:59

 

17. Sea Interlude II

00:00:50

 

18. Fairest Tinguely, we the Wharfs (Wharf Chorus, Tinguely, Water Chorus)

00:02:37

 

19. See how the smiling city take its shape (Chorus, Rauschenberg, Niki)

00:02:08

 

20. What this town needs is beauty (Niki, Tinguely)

00:02:11

 

21. Men say she has a magic pistol (Chorus, Niki)

00:01:45

 

22. I bring beauty and detail (Niki)

00:02:08

 

23. She'll shoot up the city (Chorus)

00:00:47

 

24. And now, at last, my time is past (Niki)

00:01:39

 

25. We who feel our new creation (Chorus, Niki)

00:03:17

 

26. Niki, all this city's Buildings (Tinguely, Rauschenberg, Niki)

00:01:09

 

27. Now, citizens, sunset cover you (Niki, Tinguely, Rauschenberg)

00:03:19