San Francisco Symphony presents John Adams: The Gospel According to the Other Mary
2017-02-16
Davies Symphony Hall
201 Van Ness, San Francisco, CA 94102 USA
8:00 PM, Thursday, February 16, 2017

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John Adams: 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.

Whoa! This section is incomplete for now, sorry!

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

1. [8:m PM] Scene One: Jail / House of Hospitality - “The Next Day in the City Jail”
2. [8:m PM] “Now a Certain Woman Named Martha”
   [Scene Two: Mary]
3. [8:m PM] “And She Had a Sister Named Mary”
4. [8:m PM] “I Am Surprised That I Am Beginning to Pray Daily”
5. [8:m PM] “En un día de amor yo bajé hasta la tierra”
   [Scene Three: Lazarus]
6. [8:m PM] “Now a Certain Man Was Sick”
7. [8:m PM] Lazarus Dies While the Sisters Await Jesus
8. [8:m PM] “Why Standest Thou Afar Off, O Lord?”
9. [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”
20. [8:m PM] “Tell Me: How Is This Night Different”
    [set ends 9:19 PM]

[9:41 PM lights down, tuning]

1. [9:m PM] “Who Rips His Own Flesh Down The Seams”
   [Scene One: Police Raid]
2. [9:m PM] “Martha And Mary, Not Knowing”
   [Scene Two: Arrest of the Women]
3. [9:m PM] (Instrumental Introduction)
4. [9:m PM] “Up at Two A.M., Picketed All Day”
5. [9:m PM] “The Said Defendants”
6. [9:m PM] “Jesús, incomparable perdonador de injurias”
   [Scene Three: Golgotha]
7. [9:m PM] “And They Were Come Unto a Place Called Golgotha”
8. [9:m PM] “Daughters of Jerusalem, Weep Not for Me”
9. [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”
16. [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]

San Francisco Symphony & Chorus

• Grant Gershon: conductor;
• Michael Tilson Thomas: music director;
• Ragnar Bohlin: director;

symphony and chorus performers vary by program.

• Daniel Bubeck: countertenor vox;
• Brian Cummings: countertenor vox;
• Jay Hunter Morris: tenor vox;
• Nathan Medley: countertenor vox;
• Tamara Mumford: mezzo-soprano vox;
• Kelley O'Connor: mezzo-soprano vox.

Whoa! This section is incomplete for now, sorry!

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 with John Adams at SFCV.
• Joshua Kosman posted a promo interview with John Adams with the SF Chronicle.
• Jessica Balik posted a review at SFCV.

peeps: Randy, Monique Kaufman

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