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Nixon in China
For his first large-scale stage work, John Adams chose Richard Nixon's historic 1972 trip to China as a subject, creating one of the great American operas in the process. We hear Adams' precursor to "Nixon in China," the catchy orchestral foxtrot "The Chairman Dances."
The Chairman Dances
John Adams describes his piece's origins: "'The Chairman Dances' was an 'out-take' of Act III of 'Nixon in China.' Neither an 'excerpt' nor a 'fantasy on themes from,' it was in fact a kind of warmup for embarking on the creation of the full opera...themes, sometimes slinky and sentimental, at ...
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