Opera Choruses Vol 2 - Choruses from Nixon In China, Doctor Atomic, A Flowering Tree - Mixed Choir and Piano - Sheet Music - Boosey & Hawkes (BHI 48573) - Softcover

John Adams

 
9781705110690: Opera Choruses Vol 2 - Choruses from Nixon In China, Doctor Atomic, A Flowering Tree - Mixed Choir and Piano - Sheet Music - Boosey & Hawkes (BHI 48573)

Synopsis

Boosey & Hawkes is pleased to present a three-volume collection of John Adams’s choruses from his world-renowned operas, edited by conductor Grant Gershon, featuring choral selections from six iconic stage works with newly arranged piano accompaniment by Chitose Okashiro. VOLUME 2 features choral selections from three of Adams’s most celebrated operas: Nixon in China, a dramatic imagining of President Nixon’s epochal 1972 trip to China, Doctor Atomic, which visits physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer in the days before the testing of the atomic bomb, and A Flowering Tree, an adaptation of South Indian folktale about a beautiful girl who transforms into a tree.

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