Ladies and Gentlemen, Comrades and Friends-Edo De Waart/Eric Stern/Orchestra Of St. Luke's

[ti:Act I, Scene 3: "Ladies and Gentlemen, Comrades and Friends,"] [ar:John Adams] [al:Hallelujah Junction (Nonesuch store edition)] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Ladies and Gentlemen, Comrades and Friends - Edo De Waart/Eric Stern/Orchestra Of St. Luke's [00:09.80]Ladies and gentlemen [00:14.19] [00:15.04]Comrades and friends [00:19.42] [00:20.47]We have begun to celebrate the different ways [00:29.93]That led us to this mountain pass [00:36.59] [00:37.84]This summit where we stand [00:42.23] [00:49.05]Look down and think what we have undergone [00:57.60] [01:00.10]Future and past lie far below half-visible [01:11.53] [01:16.08]We marvel now that we survived those battles [01:22.58]Took those shifting paths [01:26.88]Blasted that rock to lay those rails [01:33.32] [01:41.86]Through the cold night uncompromising lines of thought [01:49.71] [01:50.96]Attempted to find common ground [01:56.04] [01:57.15]Where their militias might intend [02:03.52] [02:04.14]Confident that the day would come [02:08.16]For shadow-boxers to strike home [02:15.29] [02:29.41]We saw by the first light of dawn [02:34.60]The outlined cities of the plain and see them still [02:44.10]Surrounded by the pastures of their tenantry [02:51.35] [02:56.11]On land we have not taken yet [03:00.73]Innumerable blades of wheat salute the sun [03:08.99]Our children race downhill unflustered into peace [03:17.25] [03:18.65]We will not sow their fields with salt [03:23.95]Or burn their standing crop [03:27.93] [03:33.92]We built these terraces for them alone [03:40.24] [03:40.87]The virtuous American and the Chinese [03:46.56]Make manifest their destinies in time [03:52.32] [03:53.40]We toast that endless province [03:56.96]Whose frontier we occupy from hour to hour [04:04.39] [04:06.06]Holding in perpetuity the ground our people won today [04:17.06]From vision to inheritance [04:21.31] [04:22.10]From vision to inheritance [04:26.78] [04:28.66]From vision [04:31.60] [04:33.71]From vision [04:36.70] [04:38.37]From vision to inheritance [04:44.45] [05:20.52]All patriots were brothers once [05:29.26] [05:31.58]Let us drink to the time when they shall be brothers again [05:39.42] [05:40.97]Let us drink to the time when they shall be brothers again [05:49.63]Again [05:51.74]Again [05:54.04]Again [05:55.00]Again [05:56.26]Again [05:57.57]Again [05:58.89]Again [06:00.27]Again [06:01.18]Again [06:01.98]Again [06:02.58]Again [06:03.25]Again [06:03.86]Again [06:04.41]Again [06:04.97]Again [06:05.47]Again [06:06.10]Again [06:06.79]Again [06:07.26]Again [06:07.89]Again [06:08.47]Again [06:09.02]Again [06:09.93]Again [06:12.39]Again [06:13.18] [06:14.79]Again [06:16.07]Again