# San Francisco Symphony & Chorus performs John Adams: The Gospel According to the Other Mary at Davies Symphony Hall, February 16, 2017

[San Francisco Symphony](http://www.sfsymphony.org/Buy-Tickets/2016-2017/John-Adams-The-Gospel-According-to-the-Other-Mary.aspx) presents [John Adams](http://www.earbox.com/): _The Gospel According to the Other Mary_  
2017-02-16  
[Davies Symphony Hall](http://www.sfsymphony.org)  
[201 Van Ness, San Francisco, CA 94102 USA](http://maps.google.com/maps?q=201+Van+Ness,+San+Francisco,+CA+94102+USA&hl=en)  
8:00 PM, Thursday, February 16, 2017

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## Tonight's Program

[John Adams](http://www.earbox.com/): _The Gospel According to the Other Mary_, a Passion oratorio in two acts (2012)  
Libretto compiled by Peter Sellars from Biblical sources and original texts by Dorothy Day, Rosario Castellanos, June Jordan, Louise Erdrich and Primo Levi.

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## Act One

[7:58 PM SFS members noodling and ready]  
[8:00 PM lights down, announcements, conductor out]

01. [8:m PM] Scene One: Jail / House of Hospitality - "The Next Day in the City Jail"
02. [8:m PM] "Now a Certain Woman Named Martha"  
[Scene Two: Mary]
03. [8:m PM] "And She Had a Sister Named Mary"
04. [8:m PM] "I Am Surprised That I Am Beginning to Pray Daily"
05. [8:m PM] "En un día de amor yo bajé hasta la tierra"  
[Scene Three: Lazarus]
06. [8:m PM] "Now a Certain Man Was Sick"
07. [8:m PM] Lazarus Dies While the Sisters Await Jesus
08. [8:m PM] "Why Standest Thou Afar Off, O Lord?"
09. [8:m PM] "In My Own Quietly Explosive Here"
10. [8:m PM] "Don't Touch My Left Arm"
11. [8:m PM] "When Mary Was Come Where Jesus Was"
12. [8:m PM] "Jesus Said, Take Ye Away the Stone"
13. [8:m PM] "And When He Thus Had Spoken"
14. [8:m PM] "Drop Down, Ye Heavens, From Above"  
[Scene Four: Supper at Bethany]
15. [8:m PM] "Then Jesus Six Days Before the Passover"
16. [8:m PM] "For the Grave Cannot Praise Thee"
17. [8:m PM] "Then Took Mary a Pound of Ointment"  
[Scene Five: Passover]
18. [8:m PM] "And There Were Some That Had Indignation"
19. [8:m PM] "We Know There Will Be No Utopias"
10. [8:m PM] "Tell Me: How Is This Night Different"  
[set ends 9:19 PM]

## Act Two

[9:41 PM lights down, tuning]

01. [9:m PM] "Who Rips His Own Flesh Down The Seams"  
[Scene One: Police Raid]
02. [9:m PM] "Martha And Mary, Not Knowing"  
[Scene Two: Arrest of the Women]
03. [9:m PM] (Instrumental Introduction)
04. [9:m PM] "Up at Two A.M., Picketed All Day"
05. [9:m PM] "The Said Defendants"
06. [9:m PM] "Jesús, incomparable perdonador de injurias"  
[Scene Three: Golgotha]
07. [9:m PM] "And They Were Come Unto a Place Called Golgotha"
08. [9:m PM] "Daughters of Jerusalem, Weep Not for Me"
09. [9:m PM] "Now There Stood by the Cross of Jesus"
10. [9:m PM] "When Jesus Saw His Mother"  
[Scene Four: Night]
11. [10:m PM] "When the Rain Began to Fall"
12. [10:m PM] "His Son Cried Out to Him"  
[Scene Five: Burial / Spring]
13. [10:m PM] "Now in the Place Where He Was Crucified"
14. [10:m PM] Mary Awakens on the Third Morning
15. [10:m PM] "It Is Spring"  
[Scene Six: Earthquake and Recognition]  
16. [10:m PM] "And, Behold, There Was a Great Earthquake"
17. [10:m PM] "Why Seek Ye the Living Among the Dead?"
[show ends 10:48 PM; applause for a few minutes, John Adams appears to take a bow with the cast, then all off]


## Performers

### San Francisco Symphony & Chorus

[San Francisco Symphony & Chorus](http://www.sfsymphony.org)

* [Grant Gershon](http://lamc.org/about/gershon.cfm): conductor;
* [Michael Tilson Thomas](http://www.michaeltilsonthomas.com/): music director;
* [Ragnar Bohlin](http://ragnarbohlin.com/): director;

[symphony and chorus performers vary by program](http://www.sfsymphony.org/About-Us/Musicians-Conductors/SFS-Chorus/Chorus-Roster).

### Principal Performers

* [Daniel Bubeck](https://www.facebook.com/daniel.bubeck): countertenor vox;
* [Brian Cummings](http://pilar-castrokiltz-t9un.squarespace.com/christpheren-nomura-1/): countertenor vox;
* [Jay Hunter Morris](http://www.jayhuntermorris.com/): tenor vox;
* [Nathan Medley](http://nathan-medley.com/Nathan_Medley_Countertenor/HOME.html): countertenor vox;
* [Tamara Mumford](http://www.tamaramumford.com/): mezzo-soprano vox;
* [Kelley O'Connor](http://www.kelleyoconnor.com/): mezzo-soprano vox.


## Notes

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Woulda been nice to hear the pre-show talk with Alexandra Amati-Camperi at 7 PM, but today's inclement weather really messed up traffic, and instead of getting to Davies Early, I barely made it on time.

Walking out, I stupidly realized that I'd been confusing this work with Adam's earlier Nativity piece, _El Niño_, which I saw in 2001 or 2010.

* Jeff Kaliss posted a [promo interview](http://www.sfcv.org/events-calendar/artist-spotlight/composer-john-adams-still-stretches-his-horizons) with John Adams at SFCV.
* Joshua Kosman posted a [promo interview](http://www.sfchronicle.com/music/article/John-Adams-at-70-a-shining-light-in-classical-10883520.php) with John Adams with the SF Chronicle.
* Jessica Balik posted a [review](https://www.sfcv.org/reviews/san-francisco-symphony/oppositions-spark-timeless-music-in-john-adams-the-gospel-according) at SFCV.

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peeps: Randy, Monique Kaufman

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