John Adams: Girls of the Golden West

'Girls of the Golden West' is a California opera, telling the story of the Gold Rush not through familiar time-worn myth, but in the words and deeds of real people: in the words of Mark Twain, 'the strangest population, the finest population. who ever trooped down the startled solitudes of an unpeopled land'.

Disc 1
1: It Was a Driving, Vigorous, Restless Population
2: Wagon Ride - Ned Peters Was a Hustler
3: My Name Is Joe
4: Now He Consoles Himself
5: A Gambler's Life I Do Admire
6: Josefa, You Remember
7: It's Bone, It's Backbone
8: Comin' Up from Red Dog

Disc 2
1: The Raven
2: The Attack On the Mexicans
3: It Seems Like Midnight
4: What Is This Celebration to Me?
5: This Very Nearly Was the Cause
6: Ven Esta Noche
7: Blessed and Praised
8: I'm Going Far Away from My Creditors
9: The Downieville Mob
10: Tú Me Quieres Alba
11: It's Four Long Years (Lousy Miner)
12: Sometimes I Lounge Forlornly to the Window

Composer: John Adams

Conductor: John Adams

Number of Discs: 2

Orchestra: Los Angeles Philharmonic

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