{"product_id":"j-schwantner-i-was-looking-at-the-celing-saw-the-sky","title":"J. Schwantner- I Was Looking at the Celing \u0026 Saw the Sky (CD)","description":"\u003cp\u003eAmerican Opera Classics - Adams: I Was Looking at the Ceiling and I saw the Sky \/ Simon \/ Composer: John Adams, Performer: Kimako Xavier Trotman, Jeannette Friedrich, Markus Alexander Neisser, Martina Mühlpointner, Conductor: Klaus Simon, Orchestra\/Ensemble: Band of Holst Sinfonietta, Young Opera Company Freiburg Number of Discs: 2 The plot, taken from the John Adams Web site, is as follows: in mid-1990s Los Angeles, David, a preacher, sings about his many love affairs and his current girlfriend, Leila. Dewain is arrested by Mike, a homophobic cop, for stealing two bottles of beer while trying to reach his lover, Consuelo, who is afraid that her son has been arrested by the INS. Tiffany videotapes the arrest; she wonders why Mike is not more receptive to her advances. Dewain resists arrest and Mike has him charged with a felony, meaning he could go to jail for 45 years under the \"Three Strikes\" law. At his trial, David, his lawyer, tries to explain his client's point of view. After questioning Tiffany, Rick begins to be attracted to her. David visits Dewain in jail, where Dewain tells him he's decided to go to law school. Leila wonders if David will ever settle down. As act II opens, Leila and David are making out on the couch in David's office in his church when an earthquake hits. Leila is knocked unconscious. Mike visits Tiffany's house; she asks him why he hasn't been more forward, and he has a crisis of sexual identity; Rick suddenly appears, and she asks him out instead. Dewain, in his cell, recounts how the walls split open and he could see the outside, but, realizing that he was better off working inside the system, he did not escape. Consuelo tells him she is going back to El Salvador to fight for political freedom; Dewain decides to stay in Los Angeles. Lying in David's arms, Leila begins to recover. At the time of the premiere, Peter Sellars, the original director, offered up the hope that the work would become the play of choice for high schools everywhere. That seems as unlikely now as it did then (should anyone care, the high school musical of choice, once the rights become available, will be William Finn's The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee), in part because of the sexual and sometimes heavy-handed political content as well as the sheer difficulty of the music. For all it's flaws, the work gains enormously in stature when heard complete and, to set the show in context, it is a whole lot more interesting musically than Rent or any of the Andrew Lloyd Webber \"Rock Operas.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cdiv data-bt-autogen\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTracklist:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eI Was Looking At The Ceiling And Then I Saw The Sky\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA Sermon On Romance\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLeila's Song Of The Wise Young Woman\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSolo In Sunlight\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDonde Estas?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMike's Song About Arresting A Particular Individual\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTiffany's Solo\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSong About The On Site Altercation\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSong About The Bad Boys And The News\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eYour Honor My Client He's A Young Black Man\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eConsuelo's Dream\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRick's Cross-Examination Of Tiffany And Mike\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSong About Law School As The Natural Follow-Up To Jail\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLeila's Solo: Alone (Again Or At Last)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSong About The Sweet Majority Population Of The World\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDuet: Three Weeks And Still I'm Outta My Mind\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEarthquake-Sounds\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEarthquake Music\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCrushed By The Rock I've Been Standing On\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDuet In The Middle Of Terrible Duress\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDewain's Song Of Liberation And Surprise\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEste Pais\/This Country\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOne Last Look At The Angel In Your Eyes\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFinale\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cp\u003eUPC \u0026gt; 730099690324\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFormat \u0026gt; New CD\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLabel \u0026gt; Naxos American\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShop online at \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/shop.darksiderecords.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003eDarkside Records\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFollow us on \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/darksiderecordspk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003eInstagram\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Alliance - BT","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46983846756573,"sku":"730099690324","price":206.0,"currency_code":"CNY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0551\/1056\/6043\/files\/772419.jpg?v=1762926196","url":"https:\/\/darksiderecords.myshopify.com\/zh-cn\/products\/j-schwantner-i-was-looking-at-the-celing-saw-the-sky","provider":"Darkside Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}