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The Construction of Boston: “Now, citizens, sunset cover you” (Niki, Tinguely, Rauschenberg)
Sharla Nafziger, William Hite, Christopheren Nomura, Boston Cecilia, Donald Teeters
The Construction of Boston · 2008
The Construction of Boston: “Niki, all this city’s Buildings” (Tinguely, Rauschenberg, Niki)
William Hite, Christopheren Nomura, Sharla Nafziger, Boston Cecilia, Donald Teeters
The Construction of Boston: “We who feel our new creation” (Chorus, Niki)
Sharla Nafziger, Boston Cecilia, Donald Teeters
The Construction of Boston: “And now, at last, my time is past” (Niki)
The Construction of Boston: “She’ll shoot up the city” (Chorus)
Boston Cecilia, Donald Teeters
The Construction of Boston: “I bring beauty and detail” (Niki)
The Construction of Boston: “Men say she has a magic pistol” (Chorus, Niki)
The Construction of Boston: “What this town needs is beauty” (Niki, Tinguely)
William Hite, Sharla Nafziger, Boston Cecilia, Donald Teeters
The Construction of Boston: “See how the smiling city take its shape” (Chorus, Rauschenberg, Niki)
Christopheren Nomura, Sharla Nafziger, Boston Cecilia, Donald Teeters
The Construction of Boston: “Fairest Tinguely, we the Wharfs” (Wharf Chorus, Tinguely, Water Chorus)
William Hite, Boston Cecilia, Donald Teeters
The Construction of Boston: “Bay Bay, you’re lucky” (Tinguely) – “Oh hear, how that noise” (Chorus)
The Construction of Boston: “Boston, all that I can say is, it’s grand to be a bay!” (Back Bay) – “Now you’re the town” (Chorus)
Elizabeth Anker, Boston Cecilia, Donald Teeters
The Construction of Boston: “But now we need more space!” (Tinguely)
The Construction of Boston: “Ah, what a lovely layout you have here!” (Tinguely, Chorus)
The Construction of Boston: Veni Tinguely Spiritus. “Tinguely, Spirit of the Air” (Chorus) – “I am arrived!” (Tinguely)
The Construction of Boston: “And now I have to stock the city up with people” (Rauschenberg, Chorus)
Christopheren Nomura, Boston Cecilia, Donald Teeters
The Construction of Boston: “I’d almost swear that I can hear the weather” (Narrator, Storm, Noon, Dawn, Rauschenberg, Chorus, Moonlight)
Charles Blandy, Marcus DeLoach, Krista River, Boston Cecilia, Donald Teeters
The Construction of Boston: “Dark afternoons in autumn” (Chorus)
The Construction of Boston: “Hail Populator” (Chorus, Rauchenberg)
The Construction of Boston: Song. “How happy I am now, fat as a cow” (Beacon Hill) – “The light summer day” (Chorus)
Charles Blandy, Boston Cecilia, Donald Teeters
The Construction of Boston: Primeval Pastoral. “How strange! What freshness steals across my brow” (Chorus)
The Construction of Boston: “You speak of one men are not fit to know” (The Spirit of Boston)
Krista River, Boston Cecilia, Donald Teeters
The Construction of Boston: “Hello, Sam” (Henry, Sam)
Charles Blandy, Marcus DeLoach, Boston Cecilia, Donald Teeters
The Construction of Boston: Prologue. “I am the Opera, here to explain myself” (Opera)