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ROAD MOVIES
John Adams on Road Movies. After years of studiously avoiding the chamber music format I have suddenly begun to compose for the medium in real earnest. The 1992 Chamber Symphony was followed by the string quartet, John’s Book of Alleged Dances, written for Kronos in 1994, and now comes Road Movies. For years the chamber music scenarioSLONIMSKY'S EARBOX
John Adams on Slonimsky’s Earbox. Slonimsky’s Earbox was composed in 1995 on a commission from two orchestras: the Hallé Orchestra in Manchester, England and the Oregon Symphony in Portland, Oregon. The work is dedicated to Kent Nagano, conductor, longtime COMMON TONES IN SIMPLE TIME John Adams on Common Tones in Simple Time. “Common Tones in Simple Time” was my first orchestral work, written in 1979, after the premiere of “Shaker Loops”. As the title suggests, the compositional and affective concerns were decidedly Minimalist. In the late Seventies there were very few models for an Minimalist orchestralstyle, so
VIOLIN CONCERTO
John Adams on the Violin Concerto. The proposal to write a violin concerto came from the violinist Jorja Fleezanis, a close friend and enthusiastic champion of new music. Composers who are not string players are seriously challenged when it comes to writing a concerto,and
HARMONIELEHRE
John Adams on Harmonielehre. Harmonielehre is roughly translated as “the book of harmony” or “treatise on harmony.” It is the title of a huge study of tonal harmony, part textbook, part philosophical rumination, that Arnold Schoenberg published in 1911 just as he was embarking on a voyage into unknown waters, one in which he would more or less permanently renounce the laws of tonality. MY FATHER KNEW CHARLES IVES John Adams on My Father Knew Charles Ives. The title, My Father Knew Charles Ives, may have been unconsicously suggested by that of a Morton Feldman of similarly challenged authenticity, I Met Heine on the Rue Fürstenberg.Carl Adams, my Massachusetts-born father, did not in fact know Charles Ives. But for a few years and only a little distance to the north, the two yankees might well have metLOLLAPALOOZA
The “lollapalooza” motive is only one of a profusion of other motives, all appearing and evolving in a repetitive chain of events that moves this dancing behemoth along until it ends in a final shout by the horns and trombones and a terminal thwack on timpani and bass drum. John Adams 2018-07-26T12:15:24-08:00. GIRLS OF THE GOLDEN WEST Scene 1: On the Road to the Sierra The hard-luck miner Clarence epitomizes the “driving, vigorous, restless population” of young men in the Gold Country. Recently arrived from New England, Dame Shirley rides a mule on her way to Rich Bar with her husband Fayette. She is an enthralled and astute observer of landscapes and people, and one of the rare women in these parts. OFFICIAL JOHN ADAMS COMPOSER Composer, conductor, and creative thinker – John Adams occupies a unique position in the world of American music. His works, both operatic and symphonic, stand out among contemporary classical compositions for their depth of expression, brilliance of sound, and the profoundly humanist nature of HARMONIUM - EARBOX - JOHN ADAMS John Adams on Harmonium. Harmonium (1980) and Shaker Loops (1978) represent my first mature statements in a language that was born out of my initial exposure to Minimalism. From the very start my own brand of Minimalism began to push the envelope. What was orderly and patiently evolving in the works of Reich or Glass was in my works already subject to violent changes in gesture and mood.ROAD MOVIES
John Adams on Road Movies. After years of studiously avoiding the chamber music format I have suddenly begun to compose for the medium in real earnest. The 1992 Chamber Symphony was followed by the string quartet, John’s Book of Alleged Dances, written for Kronos in 1994, and now comes Road Movies. For years the chamber music scenarioSLONIMSKY'S EARBOX
John Adams on Slonimsky’s Earbox. Slonimsky’s Earbox was composed in 1995 on a commission from two orchestras: the Hallé Orchestra in Manchester, England and the Oregon Symphony in Portland, Oregon. The work is dedicated to Kent Nagano, conductor, longtime COMMON TONES IN SIMPLE TIME John Adams on Common Tones in Simple Time. “Common Tones in Simple Time” was my first orchestral work, written in 1979, after the premiere of “Shaker Loops”. As the title suggests, the compositional and affective concerns were decidedly Minimalist. In the late Seventies there were very few models for an Minimalist orchestralstyle, so
VIOLIN CONCERTO
John Adams on the Violin Concerto. The proposal to write a violin concerto came from the violinist Jorja Fleezanis, a close friend and enthusiastic champion of new music. Composers who are not string players are seriously challenged when it comes to writing a concerto,and
HARMONIELEHRE
John Adams on Harmonielehre. Harmonielehre is roughly translated as “the book of harmony” or “treatise on harmony.” It is the title of a huge study of tonal harmony, part textbook, part philosophical rumination, that Arnold Schoenberg published in 1911 just as he was embarking on a voyage into unknown waters, one in which he would more or less permanently renounce the laws of tonality. MY FATHER KNEW CHARLES IVES John Adams on My Father Knew Charles Ives. The title, My Father Knew Charles Ives, may have been unconsicously suggested by that of a Morton Feldman of similarly challenged authenticity, I Met Heine on the Rue Fürstenberg.Carl Adams, my Massachusetts-born father, did not in fact know Charles Ives. But for a few years and only a little distance to the north, the two yankees might well have metLOLLAPALOOZA
The “lollapalooza” motive is only one of a profusion of other motives, all appearing and evolving in a repetitive chain of events that moves this dancing behemoth along until it ends in a final shout by the horns and trombones and a terminal thwack on timpani and bass drum. John Adams 2018-07-26T12:15:24-08:00. GIRLS OF THE GOLDEN WEST Scene 1: On the Road to the Sierra The hard-luck miner Clarence epitomizes the “driving, vigorous, restless population” of young men in the Gold Country. Recently arrived from New England, Dame Shirley rides a mule on her way to Rich Bar with her husband Fayette. She is an enthralled and astute observer of landscapes and people, and one of the rare women in these parts.VIOLIN CONCERTO
John Adams on the Violin Concerto. The proposal to write a violin concerto came from the violinist Jorja Fleezanis, a close friend and enthusiastic champion of new music. Composers who are not string players are seriously challenged when it comes to writing a concerto,and
ABSOLUTE JEST
Its creation was for me a thrilling lesson in counterpoint, in thematic transformation and formal design. The “jest” of the title should be understood in terms of its Latin meaning, “gesta:” doings, deeds, exploits. I like to think of “jest” as indicating an exercising of one’s EROS PIANO - EARBOX - JOHN ADAMS John Adams on Eros Piano. Eros Piano is a quiet, dreamy soliloquy for piano, played against a soft, lush fabric of orchestral screens and clusters. It was a direct response on my part to a piece by Toru Takemitsu, riverrun, that I had heard in a performance by the English pianist Paul Crossley.I met Takemitsu once when he visited my home in Berkeley with his wife. EL NIÑO - EARBOX - JOHN ADAMS El Niño (“the child”) follows the traditional narrative of the annuciation to Mary, the visit to Elizabeth, the birth and adoration of Jesus, Herod’s massacre of the innocents and the flight into Egypt. But, unlike Handel’s Messiah, which in most other respects is the obvious model, Adams’s treatment of text moves freely over along
GIRLS OF THE GOLDEN WEST Scene 1: On the Road to the Sierra The hard-luck miner Clarence epitomizes the “driving, vigorous, restless population” of young men in the Gold Country. Recently arrived from New England, Dame Shirley rides a mule on her way to Rich Bar with her husband Fayette. She is an enthralled and astute observer of landscapes and people, and one of the rare women in these parts. MY FATHER KNEW CHARLES IVES John Adams on My Father Knew Charles Ives. The title, My Father Knew Charles Ives, may have been unconsicously suggested by that of a Morton Feldman of similarly challenged authenticity, I Met Heine on the Rue Fürstenberg.Carl Adams, my Massachusetts-born father, did not in fact know Charles Ives. But for a few years and only a little distance to the north, the two yankees might well have met THE DHARMA AT BIG SUR John Adams on Dharma at Big Sur. The Dharma at Big Sur was composed in 2003 for the opening of Disney Hall in Los Angeles. This new building was designed by the great Frank Gehry with whom I’d collaborated twenty years earlier on a piece called Available Light for the choreographer Lucinda Childs. Even in its earliest planning stages, Disney Hall promised to be more than just another concert GUIDE TO STRANGE PLACES Guide to Strange Places has been choreographed by Ashley Page for the San Francisco Ballet, and the Nonesuch release of a recording by David Robertson and the St Louis Symphony was listed as one of the “Ten most important recordings of the decade” by Time Magazine. John Adams 2016-12-08T11:03:41-08:00. JOHN'S BOOK OF ALLEGED DANCES The “Book” is a collection of ten dances, six of which are accompanied by a recorded percussion track made of prepared piano sounds. The prepared piano was, of course, the invention of John Cage, who first put erasers, nuts, bolts, and other damping objects in the the strings of the grand piano, thereby transforming it into a kind ofpygmy
HALLELUJAH JUNCTION
The final moments of Hallelujah Junction revel in the full onomatopoeic possibilities of the title. We get the full four-syllables—the “Hallelujah”—as well as the “junction” of the by-now crazed pianists, both of them very likely in extremis of full-tilt boogie. “Hallelujah JunctionROAD MOVIES
John Adams on Road Movies. After years of studiously avoiding the chamber music format I have suddenly begun to compose for the medium in real earnest. The 1992 Chamber Symphony was followed by the string quartet, John’s Book of Alleged Dances, written for Kronos in 1994, and now comes Road Movies. For years the chamber music scenario HARMONIUM - EARBOX - JOHN ADAMS John Adams on Harmonium. Harmonium (1980) and Shaker Loops (1978) represent my first mature statements in a language that was born out of my initial exposure to Minimalism. From the very start my own brand of Minimalism began to push the envelope. What was orderly and patiently evolving in the works of Reich or Glass was in my works already subject to violent changes in gesture and mood.SLONIMSKY'S EARBOX
John Adams on Slonimsky’s Earbox. Slonimsky’s Earbox was composed in 1995 on a commission from two orchestras: the Hallé Orchestra in Manchester, England and the Oregon Symphony in Portland, Oregon. The work is dedicated to Kent Nagano, conductor, longtime COMMON TONES IN SIMPLE TIME John Adams on Common Tones in Simple Time. “Common Tones in Simple Time” was my first orchestral work, written in 1979, after the premiere of “Shaker Loops”. As the title suggests, the compositional and affective concerns were decidedly Minimalist. In the late Seventies there were very few models for an Minimalist orchestralstyle, so
VIOLIN CONCERTO
John Adams on the Violin Concerto. The proposal to write a violin concerto came from the violinist Jorja Fleezanis, a close friend and enthusiastic champion of new music. Composers who are not string players are seriously challenged when it comes to writing a concerto,and
EROS PIANO - EARBOX - JOHN ADAMS John Adams on Eros Piano. Eros Piano is a quiet, dreamy soliloquy for piano, played against a soft, lush fabric of orchestral screens and clusters. It was a direct response on my part to a piece by Toru Takemitsu, riverrun, that I had heard in a performance by the English pianist Paul Crossley.I met Takemitsu once when he visited my home in Berkeley with his wife. MY FATHER KNEW CHARLES IVES John Adams on My Father Knew Charles Ives. The title, My Father Knew Charles Ives, may have been unconsicously suggested by that of a Morton Feldman of similarly challenged authenticity, I Met Heine on the Rue Fürstenberg.Carl Adams, my Massachusetts-born father, did not in fact know Charles Ives. But for a few years and only a little distance to the north, the two yankees might well have metHARMONIELEHRE
John Adams on Harmonielehre. Harmonielehre is roughly translated as “the book of harmony” or “treatise on harmony.” It is the title of a huge study of tonal harmony, part textbook, part philosophical rumination, that Arnold Schoenberg published in 1911 just as he was embarking on a voyage into unknown waters, one in which he would more or less permanently renounce the laws of tonality.LOLLAPALOOZA
The “lollapalooza” motive is only one of a profusion of other motives, all appearing and evolving in a repetitive chain of events that moves this dancing behemoth along until it ends in a final shout by the horns and trombones and a terminal thwack on timpani and bass drum. John Adams 2018-07-26T12:15:24-08:00. GUIDE TO STRANGE PLACES Guide to Strange Places has been choreographed by Ashley Page for the San Francisco Ballet, and the Nonesuch release of a recording by David Robertson and the St Louis Symphony was listed as one of the “Ten most important recordings of the decade” by Time Magazine. John Adams 2016-12-08T11:03:41-08:00.ROAD MOVIES
John Adams on Road Movies. After years of studiously avoiding the chamber music format I have suddenly begun to compose for the medium in real earnest. The 1992 Chamber Symphony was followed by the string quartet, John’s Book of Alleged Dances, written for Kronos in 1994, and now comes Road Movies. For years the chamber music scenario HARMONIUM - EARBOX - JOHN ADAMS John Adams on Harmonium. Harmonium (1980) and Shaker Loops (1978) represent my first mature statements in a language that was born out of my initial exposure to Minimalism. From the very start my own brand of Minimalism began to push the envelope. What was orderly and patiently evolving in the works of Reich or Glass was in my works already subject to violent changes in gesture and mood.SLONIMSKY'S EARBOX
John Adams on Slonimsky’s Earbox. Slonimsky’s Earbox was composed in 1995 on a commission from two orchestras: the Hallé Orchestra in Manchester, England and the Oregon Symphony in Portland, Oregon. The work is dedicated to Kent Nagano, conductor, longtime COMMON TONES IN SIMPLE TIME John Adams on Common Tones in Simple Time. “Common Tones in Simple Time” was my first orchestral work, written in 1979, after the premiere of “Shaker Loops”. As the title suggests, the compositional and affective concerns were decidedly Minimalist. In the late Seventies there were very few models for an Minimalist orchestralstyle, so
VIOLIN CONCERTO
John Adams on the Violin Concerto. The proposal to write a violin concerto came from the violinist Jorja Fleezanis, a close friend and enthusiastic champion of new music. Composers who are not string players are seriously challenged when it comes to writing a concerto,and
EROS PIANO - EARBOX - JOHN ADAMS John Adams on Eros Piano. Eros Piano is a quiet, dreamy soliloquy for piano, played against a soft, lush fabric of orchestral screens and clusters. It was a direct response on my part to a piece by Toru Takemitsu, riverrun, that I had heard in a performance by the English pianist Paul Crossley.I met Takemitsu once when he visited my home in Berkeley with his wife. MY FATHER KNEW CHARLES IVES John Adams on My Father Knew Charles Ives. The title, My Father Knew Charles Ives, may have been unconsicously suggested by that of a Morton Feldman of similarly challenged authenticity, I Met Heine on the Rue Fürstenberg.Carl Adams, my Massachusetts-born father, did not in fact know Charles Ives. But for a few years and only a little distance to the north, the two yankees might well have metHARMONIELEHRE
John Adams on Harmonielehre. Harmonielehre is roughly translated as “the book of harmony” or “treatise on harmony.” It is the title of a huge study of tonal harmony, part textbook, part philosophical rumination, that Arnold Schoenberg published in 1911 just as he was embarking on a voyage into unknown waters, one in which he would more or less permanently renounce the laws of tonality.LOLLAPALOOZA
The “lollapalooza” motive is only one of a profusion of other motives, all appearing and evolving in a repetitive chain of events that moves this dancing behemoth along until it ends in a final shout by the horns and trombones and a terminal thwack on timpani and bass drum. John Adams 2018-07-26T12:15:24-08:00. GUIDE TO STRANGE PLACES Guide to Strange Places has been choreographed by Ashley Page for the San Francisco Ballet, and the Nonesuch release of a recording by David Robertson and the St Louis Symphony was listed as one of the “Ten most important recordings of the decade” by Time Magazine. John Adams 2016-12-08T11:03:41-08:00. OFFICIAL JOHN ADAMS COMPOSER Composer, conductor, and creative thinker – John Adams occupies a unique position in the world of American music. His works, both operatic and symphonic, stand out among contemporary classical compositions for their depth of expression, brilliance of sound, and the profoundly humanist nature of HARMONIUM - EARBOX - JOHN ADAMS John Adams on Harmonium. Harmonium (1980) and Shaker Loops (1978) represent my first mature statements in a language that was born out of my initial exposure to Minimalism. From the very start my own brand of Minimalism began to push the envelope. What was orderly and patiently evolving in the works of Reich or Glass was in my works already subject to violent changes in gesture and mood.VIOLIN CONCERTO
John Adams on the Violin Concerto. The proposal to write a violin concerto came from the violinist Jorja Fleezanis, a close friend and enthusiastic champion of new music. Composers who are not string players are seriously challenged when it comes to writing a concerto,and
EROS PIANO - EARBOX - JOHN ADAMS John Adams on Eros Piano. Eros Piano is a quiet, dreamy soliloquy for piano, played against a soft, lush fabric of orchestral screens and clusters. It was a direct response on my part to a piece by Toru Takemitsu, riverrun, that I had heard in a performance by the English pianist Paul Crossley.I met Takemitsu once when he visited my home in Berkeley with his wife. NAIVE AND SENTIMENTAL MUSIC John Adams’s massive “Naive and Sentimental Music,” which was given its world premiere by the Los Angeles Philharmonic on Feriday night in the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, is not what it first seems. Compelling, original and assured, it is music hardly representative of its title, at least in the modern sense of naive or sentimental.LIGHT OVER WATER
Light Over Water was conceived and executed primarily as a processed synthesizer piece, but to the array of electronically produced sounds. Adams added – in the recording studio of course – a kind of phantom presence in the form of a brass choir (trumpets, horns, trombones, and tubas). It inhabits a shadowy, distant plane and issometimes
GUIDE TO STRANGE PLACES Guide to Strange Places has been choreographed by Ashley Page for the San Francisco Ballet, and the Nonesuch release of a recording by David Robertson and the St Louis Symphony was listed as one of the “Ten most important recordings of the decade” by Time Magazine. John Adams 2016-12-08T11:03:41-08:00.ABSOLUTE JEST
Its creation was for me a thrilling lesson in counterpoint, in thematic transformation and formal design. The “jest” of the title should be understood in terms of its Latin meaning, “gesta:” doings, deeds, exploits. I like to think of “jest” as indicating an exercising of one’s JOHN'S BOOK OF ALLEGED DANCES The “Book” is a collection of ten dances, six of which are accompanied by a recorded percussion track made of prepared piano sounds. The prepared piano was, of course, the invention of John Cage, who first put erasers, nuts, bolts, and other damping objects in the the strings of the grand piano, thereby transforming it into a kind ofpygmy
GIRLS OF THE GOLDEN WEST A blessed thing in anybody is bone, backbone!”. Dame Shirley, alone in her cabin while her husband is away caring for a badly injured miner, receives a visit from Ned who reveals that he was a fugitive slave. Ah Sing appears in a new dress in a new apartment. When she wasa
OFFICIAL JOHN ADAMS COMPOSER Composer, conductor, and creative thinker – John Adams occupies a unique position in the world of American music. His works, both operatic and symphonic, stand out among contemporary classical compositions for their depth of expression, brilliance of sound, and the profoundly humanist nature of HARMONIUM - EARBOX - JOHN ADAMS John Adams on Harmonium. Harmonium (1980) and Shaker Loops (1978) represent my first mature statements in a language that was born out of my initial exposure to Minimalism. From the very start my own brand of Minimalism began to push the envelope. What was orderly and patiently evolving in the works of Reich or Glass was in my works already subject to violent changes in gesture COMMON TONES IN SIMPLE TIME John Adams on Common Tones in Simple Time. “Common Tones in Simple Time” was my first orchestral work, written in 1979, after the premiere of “Shaker Loops”. As the title suggests, the compositional and affective concerns were decidedly Minimalist. In the late Seventies there were very few models for an Minimalist orchestralstyle, so
ROAD MOVIES
John Adams on Road Movies. After years of studiously avoiding the chamber music format I have suddenly begun to compose for the medium in real earnest. The 1992 Chamber Symphony was followed by the string quartet, John’s Book of Alleged Dances, written for Kronos in 1994, and now comes Road Movies. For years the chamber music scenario EROS PIANO - EARBOX - JOHN ADAMS John Adams on Eros Piano. Eros Piano is a quiet, dreamy soliloquy for piano, played against a soft, lush fabric of orchestral screens and clusters. It was a direct response on my part to a piece by Toru Takemitsu, riverrun, that I had heard in a performance by the English pianist Paul Crossley.I met Takemitsu once when he visited my home in Berkeley with his wife.VIOLIN CONCERTO
John Adams on the Violin Concerto. The proposal to write a violin concerto came from the violinist Jorja Fleezanis, a close friend and enthusiastic champion of new music. Composers who are not string players are seriously challenged when it comes to writing a concerto,and
HARMONIELEHRE
John Adams on Harmonielehre. Harmonielehre is roughly translated as “the book of harmony” or “treatise on harmony.” It is the title of a huge study of tonal harmony, part textbook, part philosophical rumination, that Arnold Schoenberg published in 1911 just as he was embarking on a voyage into unknown waters, one in which he would more or less permanently renounce the laws of tonality.ABSOLUTE JEST
Its creation was for me a thrilling lesson in counterpoint, in thematic transformation and formal design. The “jest” of the title should be understood in terms of its Latin meaning, “gesta:” doings, deeds, exploits. I like to think of “jest” as indicating an exercising of one’s MY FATHER KNEW CHARLES IVES John Adams on My Father Knew Charles Ives. The title, My Father Knew Charles Ives, may have been unconsicously suggested by that of a Morton Feldman of similarly challenged authenticity, I Met Heine on the Rue Fürstenberg.Carl Adams, my Massachusetts-born father, did not in fact know Charles Ives. But for a few years and only a little distance to the north, the two yankees might well have met GIRLS OF THE GOLDEN WEST A blessed thing in anybody is bone, backbone!”. Dame Shirley, alone in her cabin while her husband is away caring for a badly injured miner, receives a visit from Ned who reveals that he was a fugitive slave. Ah Sing appears in a new dress in a new apartment. When she wasa
OFFICIAL JOHN ADAMS COMPOSER Composer, conductor, and creative thinker – John Adams occupies a unique position in the world of American music. His works, both operatic and symphonic, stand out among contemporary classical compositions for their depth of expression, brilliance of sound, and the profoundly humanist nature of HARMONIUM - EARBOX - JOHN ADAMS John Adams on Harmonium. Harmonium (1980) and Shaker Loops (1978) represent my first mature statements in a language that was born out of my initial exposure to Minimalism. From the very start my own brand of Minimalism began to push the envelope. What was orderly and patiently evolving in the works of Reich or Glass was in my works already subject to violent changes in gesture COMMON TONES IN SIMPLE TIME John Adams on Common Tones in Simple Time. “Common Tones in Simple Time” was my first orchestral work, written in 1979, after the premiere of “Shaker Loops”. As the title suggests, the compositional and affective concerns were decidedly Minimalist. In the late Seventies there were very few models for an Minimalist orchestralstyle, so
ROAD MOVIES
John Adams on Road Movies. After years of studiously avoiding the chamber music format I have suddenly begun to compose for the medium in real earnest. The 1992 Chamber Symphony was followed by the string quartet, John’s Book of Alleged Dances, written for Kronos in 1994, and now comes Road Movies. For years the chamber music scenario EROS PIANO - EARBOX - JOHN ADAMS John Adams on Eros Piano. Eros Piano is a quiet, dreamy soliloquy for piano, played against a soft, lush fabric of orchestral screens and clusters. It was a direct response on my part to a piece by Toru Takemitsu, riverrun, that I had heard in a performance by the English pianist Paul Crossley.I met Takemitsu once when he visited my home in Berkeley with his wife.VIOLIN CONCERTO
John Adams on the Violin Concerto. The proposal to write a violin concerto came from the violinist Jorja Fleezanis, a close friend and enthusiastic champion of new music. Composers who are not string players are seriously challenged when it comes to writing a concerto,and
HARMONIELEHRE
John Adams on Harmonielehre. Harmonielehre is roughly translated as “the book of harmony” or “treatise on harmony.” It is the title of a huge study of tonal harmony, part textbook, part philosophical rumination, that Arnold Schoenberg published in 1911 just as he was embarking on a voyage into unknown waters, one in which he would more or less permanently renounce the laws of tonality.ABSOLUTE JEST
Its creation was for me a thrilling lesson in counterpoint, in thematic transformation and formal design. The “jest” of the title should be understood in terms of its Latin meaning, “gesta:” doings, deeds, exploits. I like to think of “jest” as indicating an exercising of one’s MY FATHER KNEW CHARLES IVES John Adams on My Father Knew Charles Ives. The title, My Father Knew Charles Ives, may have been unconsicously suggested by that of a Morton Feldman of similarly challenged authenticity, I Met Heine on the Rue Fürstenberg.Carl Adams, my Massachusetts-born father, did not in fact know Charles Ives. But for a few years and only a little distance to the north, the two yankees might well have met GIRLS OF THE GOLDEN WEST A blessed thing in anybody is bone, backbone!”. Dame Shirley, alone in her cabin while her husband is away caring for a badly injured miner, receives a visit from Ned who reveals that he was a fugitive slave. Ah Sing appears in a new dress in a new apartment. When she wasa
EROS PIANO - EARBOX - JOHN ADAMS John Adams on Eros Piano. Eros Piano is a quiet, dreamy soliloquy for piano, played against a soft, lush fabric of orchestral screens and clusters. It was a direct response on my part to a piece by Toru Takemitsu, riverrun, that I had heard in a performance by the English pianist Paul Crossley.I met Takemitsu once when he visited my home in Berkeley with his wife. EL NIÑO - EARBOX - JOHN ADAMS El Niño (“the child”) follows the traditional narrative of the annuciation to Mary, the visit to Elizabeth, the birth and adoration of Jesus, Herod’s massacre of the innocents and the flight into Egypt. But, unlike Handel’s Messiah, which in most other respects is the obvious model, Adams’s treatment of text moves freely over along
MY FATHER KNEW CHARLES IVES John Adams on My Father Knew Charles Ives. The title, My Father Knew Charles Ives, may have been unconsicously suggested by that of a Morton Feldman of similarly challenged authenticity, I Met Heine on the Rue Fürstenberg.Carl Adams, my Massachusetts-born father, did not in fact know Charles Ives. But for a few years and only a little distance to the north, the two yankees might well have met THE JOHN ADAMS EARBOX TEN-CD RETROSPECTIVE The John Adams Earbox. The John Adams Earbox is a ten-CD retrospective of almost all of Adams’s music written between the late 1970’s and late 1990’s. In 1985 Adams began a long-term exclusive relationship with Nonesuch Records which has resulted in one of the most thoroughly documented catalogues of any living composer.CHAMBER SYMPHONY
John Adams on the Chamber Symphony. Written for 15 instruments and lasting 22 minutes, the Chamber Symphony bears a suspicious resemblance to its eponymous predecessor, the Opus 9 of Arnold Schoenberg. The choice of instruments is roughly the same as Schoenberg’s, although mine includes parts for synthesizer, percussion (a trap set), trumpet and trombone. GIRLS OF THE GOLDEN WEST Scene 1: On the Road to the Sierra The hard-luck miner Clarence epitomizes the “driving, vigorous, restless population” of young men in the Gold Country. Recently arrived from New England, Dame Shirley rides a mule on her way to Rich Bar with her husband Fayette. She is an enthralled and astute observer of landscapes and people, and one of the rare women in these parts.ABSOLUTE JEST
Its creation was for me a thrilling lesson in counterpoint, in thematic transformation and formal design. The “jest” of the title should be understood in terms of its Latin meaning, “gesta:” doings, deeds, exploits. I like to think of “jest” as indicating an exercising of one’sTHE CHAIRMAN DANCES
John Adams on The Chairman Dances. 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 embraking on the creation of the full opera. At the time, 1985, I was obliged to fulfill a long-delayed commission for the MilwaukeeSymphony
VIOLIN CONCERTO, LEILA JOSEFOWICZ A new release from Nonesuch of the John Adams 1993 Violin Concerto features the great American violinist Leila Josefowicz with David Robertson conducting the St Louis Symphony Orchestra. The Boston Globe described the work as having “the qualities of intelligence, craftsmanship, and quirkiness that have always marked the composer andhis work
GUIDE TO STRANGE PLACES Guide to Strange Places has been choreographed by Ashley Page for the San Francisco Ballet, and the Nonesuch release of a recording by David Robertson and the St Louis Symphony was listed as one of the “Ten most important recordings of the decade” by Time Magazine. John Adams 2016-12-08T11:03:41-08:00. OFFICIAL JOHN ADAMS COMPOSER Composer, conductor, and creative thinker – John Adams occupies a unique position in the world of American music. His works, both operatic and symphonic, stand out among contemporary classical compositions for their depth of expression, brilliance of sound, and the profoundly humanist nature of HARMONIUM - EARBOX - JOHN ADAMS John Adams on Harmonium. Harmonium (1980) and Shaker Loops (1978) represent my first mature statements in a language that was born out of my initial exposure to Minimalism. From the very start my own brand of Minimalism began to push the envelope. What was orderly and patiently evolving in the works of Reich or Glass was in my works already subject to violent changes in gesture COMMON TONES IN SIMPLE TIME John Adams on Common Tones in Simple Time. “Common Tones in Simple Time” was my first orchestral work, written in 1979, after the premiere of “Shaker Loops”. As the title suggests, the compositional and affective concerns were decidedly Minimalist. In the late Seventies there were very few models for an Minimalist orchestralstyle, so
ROAD MOVIES
John Adams on Road Movies. After years of studiously avoiding the chamber music format I have suddenly begun to compose for the medium in real earnest. The 1992 Chamber Symphony was followed by the string quartet, John’s Book of Alleged Dances, written for Kronos in 1994, and now comes Road Movies. For years the chamber music scenario EROS PIANO - EARBOX - JOHN ADAMS John Adams on Eros Piano. Eros Piano is a quiet, dreamy soliloquy for piano, played against a soft, lush fabric of orchestral screens and clusters. It was a direct response on my part to a piece by Toru Takemitsu, riverrun, that I had heard in a performance by the English pianist Paul Crossley.I met Takemitsu once when he visited my home in Berkeley with his wife.VIOLIN CONCERTO
John Adams on the Violin Concerto. The proposal to write a violin concerto came from the violinist Jorja Fleezanis, a close friend and enthusiastic champion of new music. Composers who are not string players are seriously challenged when it comes to writing a concerto,and
HARMONIELEHRE
John Adams on Harmonielehre. Harmonielehre is roughly translated as “the book of harmony” or “treatise on harmony.” It is the title of a huge study of tonal harmony, part textbook, part philosophical rumination, that Arnold Schoenberg published in 1911 just as he was embarking on a voyage into unknown waters, one in which he would more or less permanently renounce the laws of tonality.ABSOLUTE JEST
Its creation was for me a thrilling lesson in counterpoint, in thematic transformation and formal design. The “jest” of the title should be understood in terms of its Latin meaning, “gesta:” doings, deeds, exploits. I like to think of “jest” as indicating an exercising of one’s MY FATHER KNEW CHARLES IVES John Adams on My Father Knew Charles Ives. The title, My Father Knew Charles Ives, may have been unconsicously suggested by that of a Morton Feldman of similarly challenged authenticity, I Met Heine on the Rue Fürstenberg.Carl Adams, my Massachusetts-born father, did not in fact know Charles Ives. But for a few years and only a little distance to the north, the two yankees might well have met GIRLS OF THE GOLDEN WEST A blessed thing in anybody is bone, backbone!”. Dame Shirley, alone in her cabin while her husband is away caring for a badly injured miner, receives a visit from Ned who reveals that he was a fugitive slave. Ah Sing appears in a new dress in a new apartment. When she wasa
OFFICIAL JOHN ADAMS COMPOSER Composer, conductor, and creative thinker – John Adams occupies a unique position in the world of American music. His works, both operatic and symphonic, stand out among contemporary classical compositions for their depth of expression, brilliance of sound, and the profoundly humanist nature of HARMONIUM - EARBOX - JOHN ADAMS John Adams on Harmonium. Harmonium (1980) and Shaker Loops (1978) represent my first mature statements in a language that was born out of my initial exposure to Minimalism. From the very start my own brand of Minimalism began to push the envelope. What was orderly and patiently evolving in the works of Reich or Glass was in my works already subject to violent changes in gesture COMMON TONES IN SIMPLE TIME John Adams on Common Tones in Simple Time. “Common Tones in Simple Time” was my first orchestral work, written in 1979, after the premiere of “Shaker Loops”. As the title suggests, the compositional and affective concerns were decidedly Minimalist. In the late Seventies there were very few models for an Minimalist orchestralstyle, so
ROAD MOVIES
John Adams on Road Movies. After years of studiously avoiding the chamber music format I have suddenly begun to compose for the medium in real earnest. The 1992 Chamber Symphony was followed by the string quartet, John’s Book of Alleged Dances, written for Kronos in 1994, and now comes Road Movies. For years the chamber music scenario EROS PIANO - EARBOX - JOHN ADAMS John Adams on Eros Piano. Eros Piano is a quiet, dreamy soliloquy for piano, played against a soft, lush fabric of orchestral screens and clusters. It was a direct response on my part to a piece by Toru Takemitsu, riverrun, that I had heard in a performance by the English pianist Paul Crossley.I met Takemitsu once when he visited my home in Berkeley with his wife.VIOLIN CONCERTO
John Adams on the Violin Concerto. The proposal to write a violin concerto came from the violinist Jorja Fleezanis, a close friend and enthusiastic champion of new music. Composers who are not string players are seriously challenged when it comes to writing a concerto,and
HARMONIELEHRE
John Adams on Harmonielehre. Harmonielehre is roughly translated as “the book of harmony” or “treatise on harmony.” It is the title of a huge study of tonal harmony, part textbook, part philosophical rumination, that Arnold Schoenberg published in 1911 just as he was embarking on a voyage into unknown waters, one in which he would more or less permanently renounce the laws of tonality.ABSOLUTE JEST
Its creation was for me a thrilling lesson in counterpoint, in thematic transformation and formal design. The “jest” of the title should be understood in terms of its Latin meaning, “gesta:” doings, deeds, exploits. I like to think of “jest” as indicating an exercising of one’s MY FATHER KNEW CHARLES IVES John Adams on My Father Knew Charles Ives. The title, My Father Knew Charles Ives, may have been unconsicously suggested by that of a Morton Feldman of similarly challenged authenticity, I Met Heine on the Rue Fürstenberg.Carl Adams, my Massachusetts-born father, did not in fact know Charles Ives. But for a few years and only a little distance to the north, the two yankees might well have met GIRLS OF THE GOLDEN WEST A blessed thing in anybody is bone, backbone!”. Dame Shirley, alone in her cabin while her husband is away caring for a badly injured miner, receives a visit from Ned who reveals that he was a fugitive slave. Ah Sing appears in a new dress in a new apartment. When she wasa
EROS PIANO - EARBOX - JOHN ADAMS John Adams on Eros Piano. Eros Piano is a quiet, dreamy soliloquy for piano, played against a soft, lush fabric of orchestral screens and clusters. It was a direct response on my part to a piece by Toru Takemitsu, riverrun, that I had heard in a performance by the English pianist Paul Crossley.I met Takemitsu once when he visited my home in Berkeley with his wife. EL NIÑO - EARBOX - JOHN ADAMS El Niño (“the child”) follows the traditional narrative of the annuciation to Mary, the visit to Elizabeth, the birth and adoration of Jesus, Herod’s massacre of the innocents and the flight into Egypt. But, unlike Handel’s Messiah, which in most other respects is the obvious model, Adams’s treatment of text moves freely over along
MY FATHER KNEW CHARLES IVES John Adams on My Father Knew Charles Ives. The title, My Father Knew Charles Ives, may have been unconsicously suggested by that of a Morton Feldman of similarly challenged authenticity, I Met Heine on the Rue Fürstenberg.Carl Adams, my Massachusetts-born father, did not in fact know Charles Ives. But for a few years and only a little distance to the north, the two yankees might well have met THE JOHN ADAMS EARBOX TEN-CD RETROSPECTIVE The John Adams Earbox. The John Adams Earbox is a ten-CD retrospective of almost all of Adams’s music written between the late 1970’s and late 1990’s. In 1985 Adams began a long-term exclusive relationship with Nonesuch Records which has resulted in one of the most thoroughly documented catalogues of any living composer.CHAMBER SYMPHONY
John Adams on the Chamber Symphony. Written for 15 instruments and lasting 22 minutes, the Chamber Symphony bears a suspicious resemblance to its eponymous predecessor, the Opus 9 of Arnold Schoenberg. The choice of instruments is roughly the same as Schoenberg’s, although mine includes parts for synthesizer, percussion (a trap set), trumpet and trombone. GIRLS OF THE GOLDEN WEST Scene 1: On the Road to the Sierra The hard-luck miner Clarence epitomizes the “driving, vigorous, restless population” of young men in the Gold Country. Recently arrived from New England, Dame Shirley rides a mule on her way to Rich Bar with her husband Fayette. She is an enthralled and astute observer of landscapes and people, and one of the rare women in these parts.ABSOLUTE JEST
Its creation was for me a thrilling lesson in counterpoint, in thematic transformation and formal design. The “jest” of the title should be understood in terms of its Latin meaning, “gesta:” doings, deeds, exploits. I like to think of “jest” as indicating an exercising of one’sTHE CHAIRMAN DANCES
John Adams on The Chairman Dances. 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 embraking on the creation of the full opera. At the time, 1985, I was obliged to fulfill a long-delayed commission for the MilwaukeeSymphony
VIOLIN CONCERTO, LEILA JOSEFOWICZ A new release from Nonesuch of the John Adams 1993 Violin Concerto features the great American violinist Leila Josefowicz with David Robertson conducting the St Louis Symphony Orchestra. The Boston Globe described the work as having “the qualities of intelligence, craftsmanship, and quirkiness that have always marked the composer andhis work
GUIDE TO STRANGE PLACES Guide to Strange Places has been choreographed by Ashley Page for the San Francisco Ballet, and the Nonesuch release of a recording by David Robertson and the St Louis Symphony was listed as one of the “Ten most important recordings of the decade” by Time Magazine. John Adams 2016-12-08T11:03:41-08:00. HARMONIUM - EARBOX - JOHN ADAMS John Adams on Harmonium. Harmonium (1980) and Shaker Loops (1978) represent my first mature statements in a language that was born out of my initial exposure to Minimalism. From the very start my own brand of Minimalism began to push the envelope. What was orderly and patiently evolving in the works of Reich or Glass was in my works already subject to violent changes in gestureVIOLIN CONCERTO
John Adams on the Violin Concerto. The proposal to write a violin concerto came from the violinist Jorja Fleezanis, a close friend and enthusiastic champion of new music. Composers who are not string players are seriously challenged when it comes to writing a concerto,and
ROAD MOVIES
John Adams on Road Movies. After years of studiously avoiding the chamber music format I have suddenly begun to compose for the medium in real earnest. The 1992 Chamber Symphony was followed by the string quartet, John’s Book of Alleged Dances, written for Kronos in 1994, and now comes Road Movies. For years the chamber music scenario COMMON TONES IN SIMPLE TIME John Adams on Common Tones in Simple Time. “Common Tones in Simple Time” was my first orchestral work, written in 1979, after the premiere of “Shaker Loops”. As the title suggests, the compositional and affective concerns were decidedly Minimalist. In the late Seventies there were very few models for an Minimalist orchestralstyle, so
SLONIMSKY'S EARBOX
John Adams on Slonimsky’s Earbox. Slonimsky’s Earbox was composed in 1995 on a commission from two orchestras: the Hallé Orchestra in Manchester, England and the Oregon Symphony in Portland, Oregon. The work is dedicated to Kent Nagano, conductor, longtime MY FATHER KNEW CHARLES IVES John Adams on My Father Knew Charles Ives. The title, My Father Knew Charles Ives, may have been unconsicously suggested by that of a Morton Feldman of similarly challenged authenticity, I Met Heine on the Rue Fürstenberg.Carl Adams, my Massachusetts-born father, did not in fact know Charles Ives. But for a few years and only a little distance to the north, the two yankees might well have met EROS PIANO - EARBOX - JOHN ADAMS John Adams on Eros Piano. Eros Piano is a quiet, dreamy soliloquy for piano, played against a soft, lush fabric of orchestral screens and clusters. It was a direct response on my part to a piece by Toru Takemitsu, riverrun, that I had heard in a performance by the English pianist Paul Crossley.I met Takemitsu once when he visited my home in Berkeley with his wife. VIOLIN CONCERTO, LEILA JOSEFOWICZ A new release from Nonesuch of the John Adams 1993 Violin Concerto features the great American violinist Leila Josefowicz with David Robertson conducting the St Louis Symphony Orchestra. The Boston Globe described the work as having “the qualities of intelligence, craftsmanship, and quirkiness that have always marked the composer andhis work
HARMONIELEHRE
John Adams on Harmonielehre. Harmonielehre is roughly translated as “the book of harmony” or “treatise on harmony.” It is the title of a huge study of tonal harmony, part textbook, part philosophical rumination, that Arnold Schoenberg published in 1911 just as he was embarking on a voyage into unknown waters, one in which he would more or less permanently renounce the laws of tonality. GUIDE TO STRANGE PLACES Guide to Strange Places has been choreographed by Ashley Page for the San Francisco Ballet, and the Nonesuch release of a recording by David Robertson and the St Louis Symphony was listed as one of the “Ten most important recordings of the decade” by Time Magazine. John Adams 2016-12-08T11:03:41-08:00. HARMONIUM - EARBOX - JOHN ADAMS John Adams on Harmonium. Harmonium (1980) and Shaker Loops (1978) represent my first mature statements in a language that was born out of my initial exposure to Minimalism. From the very start my own brand of Minimalism began to push the envelope. What was orderly and patiently evolving in the works of Reich or Glass was in my works already subject to violent changes in gestureVIOLIN CONCERTO
John Adams on the Violin Concerto. The proposal to write a violin concerto came from the violinist Jorja Fleezanis, a close friend and enthusiastic champion of new music. Composers who are not string players are seriously challenged when it comes to writing a concerto,and
ROAD MOVIES
John Adams on Road Movies. After years of studiously avoiding the chamber music format I have suddenly begun to compose for the medium in real earnest. The 1992 Chamber Symphony was followed by the string quartet, John’s Book of Alleged Dances, written for Kronos in 1994, and now comes Road Movies. For years the chamber music scenario COMMON TONES IN SIMPLE TIME John Adams on Common Tones in Simple Time. “Common Tones in Simple Time” was my first orchestral work, written in 1979, after the premiere of “Shaker Loops”. As the title suggests, the compositional and affective concerns were decidedly Minimalist. In the late Seventies there were very few models for an Minimalist orchestralstyle, so
SLONIMSKY'S EARBOX
John Adams on Slonimsky’s Earbox. Slonimsky’s Earbox was composed in 1995 on a commission from two orchestras: the Hallé Orchestra in Manchester, England and the Oregon Symphony in Portland, Oregon. The work is dedicated to Kent Nagano, conductor, longtime MY FATHER KNEW CHARLES IVES John Adams on My Father Knew Charles Ives. The title, My Father Knew Charles Ives, may have been unconsicously suggested by that of a Morton Feldman of similarly challenged authenticity, I Met Heine on the Rue Fürstenberg.Carl Adams, my Massachusetts-born father, did not in fact know Charles Ives. But for a few years and only a little distance to the north, the two yankees might well have met EROS PIANO - EARBOX - JOHN ADAMS John Adams on Eros Piano. Eros Piano is a quiet, dreamy soliloquy for piano, played against a soft, lush fabric of orchestral screens and clusters. It was a direct response on my part to a piece by Toru Takemitsu, riverrun, that I had heard in a performance by the English pianist Paul Crossley.I met Takemitsu once when he visited my home in Berkeley with his wife. VIOLIN CONCERTO, LEILA JOSEFOWICZ A new release from Nonesuch of the John Adams 1993 Violin Concerto features the great American violinist Leila Josefowicz with David Robertson conducting the St Louis Symphony Orchestra. The Boston Globe described the work as having “the qualities of intelligence, craftsmanship, and quirkiness that have always marked the composer andhis work
HARMONIELEHRE
John Adams on Harmonielehre. Harmonielehre is roughly translated as “the book of harmony” or “treatise on harmony.” It is the title of a huge study of tonal harmony, part textbook, part philosophical rumination, that Arnold Schoenberg published in 1911 just as he was embarking on a voyage into unknown waters, one in which he would more or less permanently renounce the laws of tonality. GUIDE TO STRANGE PLACES Guide to Strange Places has been choreographed by Ashley Page for the San Francisco Ballet, and the Nonesuch release of a recording by David Robertson and the St Louis Symphony was listed as one of the “Ten most important recordings of the decade” by Time Magazine. John Adams 2016-12-08T11:03:41-08:00. OFFICIAL JOHN ADAMS COMPOSER Composer, conductor, and creative thinker – John Adams occupies a unique position in the world of American music. His works, both operatic and symphonic, stand out among contemporary classical compositions for their depth of expression, brilliance of sound, and the profoundly humanist nature of HARMONIUM - EARBOX - JOHN ADAMS John Adams on Harmonium. Harmonium (1980) and Shaker Loops (1978) represent my first mature statements in a language that was born out of my initial exposure to Minimalism. From the very start my own brand of Minimalism began to push the envelope. What was orderly and patiently evolving in the works of Reich or Glass was in my works already subject to violent changes in gesture and mood.LIGHT OVER WATER
Light Over Water was conceived and executed primarily as a processed synthesizer piece, but to the array of electronically produced sounds. Adams added – in the recording studio of course – a kind of phantom presence in the form of a brass choir (trumpets, horns, trombones, and tubas). It inhabits a shadowy, distant plane and issometimes
NAIVE AND SENTIMENTAL MUSIC John Adams’s massive “Naive and Sentimental Music,” which was given its world premiere by the Los Angeles Philharmonic on Feriday night in the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, is not what it first seems. Compelling, original and assured, it is music hardly representative of its title, at least in the modern sense of naive or sentimental.GRAND PIANOLA MUSIC
John Adams on Grand Pianola Music. When Grand Pianola Music was first performed in New York (in 1982 in a festival of contemporary music organized and conducted by the composer Jacob Druckman) the audience response included a substantial and (to me) shocking number of“boos.”
GUIDE TO STRANGE PLACES Guide to Strange Places has been choreographed by Ashley Page for the San Francisco Ballet, and the Nonesuch release of a recording by David Robertson and the St Louis Symphony was listed as one of the “Ten most important recordings of the decade” by Time Magazine. John Adams 2016-12-08T11:03:41-08:00. VIOLIN CONCERTO, LEILA JOSEFOWICZ A new release from Nonesuch of the John Adams 1993 Violin Concerto features the great American violinist Leila Josefowicz with David Robertson conducting the St Louis Symphony Orchestra. The Boston Globe described the work as having “the qualities of intelligence, craftsmanship, and quirkiness that have always marked the composer andhis work
ABSOLUTE JEST
Its creation was for me a thrilling lesson in counterpoint, in thematic transformation and formal design. The “jest” of the title should be understood in terms of its Latin meaning, “gesta:” doings, deeds, exploits. I like to think of “jest” as indicating an exercising of one’sLOLLAPALOOZA
The “lollapalooza” motive is only one of a profusion of other motives, all appearing and evolving in a repetitive chain of events that moves this dancing behemoth along until it ends in a final shout by the horns and trombones and a terminal thwack on timpani and bass drum. John Adams 2018-07-26T12:15:24-08:00. JOHN'S BOOK OF ALLEGED DANCES The “Book” is a collection of ten dances, six of which are accompanied by a recorded percussion track made of prepared piano sounds. The prepared piano was, of course, the invention of John Cage, who first put erasers, nuts, bolts, and other damping objects in the the strings of the grand piano, thereby transforming it into a kind ofpygmy
OFFICIAL JOHN ADAMS COMPOSER Composer, conductor, and creative thinker – John Adams occupies a unique position in the world of American music. His works, both operatic and symphonic, stand out among contemporary classical compositions for their depth of expression, brilliance of sound, and the profoundly humanist nature of HARMONIUM - EARBOX - JOHN ADAMSWHO WAS JOHN ADAMSFACTS ABOUT JOHN ADAMS COMPOSERJOHN ADAMS MUSICJOHN ADAMS MUSICIANJOHN ADAMS COMPOSITIONSJOHN ADAMS MINISERIES John Adams on Harmonium. Harmonium (1980) and Shaker Loops (1978) represent my first mature statements in a language that was born out of my initial exposure to Minimalism. From the very start my own brand of Minimalism began to push the envelope. What was orderly and patiently evolving in the works of Reich or Glass was in my works already subject to violent changes in gestureGNARLY BUTTONS
Gnarly Buttons was commissioned by the London Sinfonietta and by Present Music in Milwaukee. It was first performed by clarinetist Michael Collins and the London Sinfonietta under the composer’s direction on October 19, 1996 at Queen Elizabeth Hall in London.VIOLIN CONCERTO
John Adams on the Violin Concerto. The proposal to write a violin concerto came from the violinist Jorja Fleezanis, a close friend and enthusiastic champion of new music. Composers who are not string players are seriously challenged when it comes to writing a concerto,and
SLONIMSKY'S EARBOX
John Adams on Slonimsky’s Earbox. Slonimsky’s Earbox was composed in 1995 on a commission from two orchestras: the Hallé Orchestra in Manchester, England and the Oregon Symphony in Portland, Oregon. The work is dedicated to Kent Nagano, conductor, longtime COMMON TONES IN SIMPLE TIME John Adams on Common Tones in Simple Time. “Common Tones in Simple Time” was my first orchestral work, written in 1979, after the premiere of “Shaker Loops”. As the title suggests, the compositional and affective concerns were decidedly Minimalist. In the late Seventies there were very few models for an Minimalist orchestralstyle, so
MY FATHER KNEW CHARLES IVES John Adams on My Father Knew Charles Ives. The title, My Father Knew Charles Ives, may have been unconsicously suggested by that of a Morton Feldman of similarly challenged authenticity, I Met Heine on the Rue Fürstenberg.Carl Adams, my Massachusetts-born father, did not in fact know Charles Ives. But for a few years and only a little distance to the north, the two yankees might well have metHARMONIELEHRE
John Adams on Harmonielehre. Harmonielehre is roughly translated as “the book of harmony” or “treatise on harmony.” It is the title of a huge study of tonal harmony, part textbook, part philosophical rumination, that Arnold Schoenberg published in 1911 just as he was embarking on a voyage into unknown waters, one in which he would more or less permanently renounce the laws of tonality. VIOLIN CONCERTO, LEILA JOSEFOWICZ A new release from Nonesuch of the John Adams 1993 Violin Concerto features the great American violinist Leila Josefowicz with David Robertson conducting the St Louis Symphony Orchestra. The Boston Globe described the work as having “the qualities of intelligence, craftsmanship, and quirkiness that have always marked the composer andhis work
GUIDE TO STRANGE PLACES Guide to Strange Places has been choreographed by Ashley Page for the San Francisco Ballet, and the Nonesuch release of a recording by David Robertson and the St Louis Symphony was listed as one of the “Ten most important recordings of the decade” by Time Magazine. John Adams 2016-12-08T11:03:41-08:00. OFFICIAL JOHN ADAMS COMPOSER Composer, conductor, and creative thinker – John Adams occupies a unique position in the world of American music. His works, both operatic and symphonic, stand out among contemporary classical compositions for their depth of expression, brilliance of sound, and the profoundly humanist nature of HARMONIUM - EARBOX - JOHN ADAMSWHO WAS JOHN ADAMSFACTS ABOUT JOHN ADAMS COMPOSERJOHN ADAMS MUSICJOHN ADAMS MUSICIANJOHN ADAMS COMPOSITIONSJOHN ADAMS MINISERIES John Adams on Harmonium. Harmonium (1980) and Shaker Loops (1978) represent my first mature statements in a language that was born out of my initial exposure to Minimalism. From the very start my own brand of Minimalism began to push the envelope. What was orderly and patiently evolving in the works of Reich or Glass was in my works already subject to violent changes in gestureGNARLY BUTTONS
Gnarly Buttons was commissioned by the London Sinfonietta and by Present Music in Milwaukee. It was first performed by clarinetist Michael Collins and the London Sinfonietta under the composer’s direction on October 19, 1996 at Queen Elizabeth Hall in London.VIOLIN CONCERTO
John Adams on the Violin Concerto. The proposal to write a violin concerto came from the violinist Jorja Fleezanis, a close friend and enthusiastic champion of new music. Composers who are not string players are seriously challenged when it comes to writing a concerto,and
SLONIMSKY'S EARBOX
John Adams on Slonimsky’s Earbox. Slonimsky’s Earbox was composed in 1995 on a commission from two orchestras: the Hallé Orchestra in Manchester, England and the Oregon Symphony in Portland, Oregon. The work is dedicated to Kent Nagano, conductor, longtime COMMON TONES IN SIMPLE TIME John Adams on Common Tones in Simple Time. “Common Tones in Simple Time” was my first orchestral work, written in 1979, after the premiere of “Shaker Loops”. As the title suggests, the compositional and affective concerns were decidedly Minimalist. In the late Seventies there were very few models for an Minimalist orchestralstyle, so
MY FATHER KNEW CHARLES IVES John Adams on My Father Knew Charles Ives. The title, My Father Knew Charles Ives, may have been unconsicously suggested by that of a Morton Feldman of similarly challenged authenticity, I Met Heine on the Rue Fürstenberg.Carl Adams, my Massachusetts-born father, did not in fact know Charles Ives. But for a few years and only a little distance to the north, the two yankees might well have metHARMONIELEHRE
John Adams on Harmonielehre. Harmonielehre is roughly translated as “the book of harmony” or “treatise on harmony.” It is the title of a huge study of tonal harmony, part textbook, part philosophical rumination, that Arnold Schoenberg published in 1911 just as he was embarking on a voyage into unknown waters, one in which he would more or less permanently renounce the laws of tonality. VIOLIN CONCERTO, LEILA JOSEFOWICZ A new release from Nonesuch of the John Adams 1993 Violin Concerto features the great American violinist Leila Josefowicz with David Robertson conducting the St Louis Symphony Orchestra. The Boston Globe described the work as having “the qualities of intelligence, craftsmanship, and quirkiness that have always marked the composer andhis work
GUIDE TO STRANGE PLACES Guide to Strange Places has been choreographed by Ashley Page for the San Francisco Ballet, and the Nonesuch release of a recording by David Robertson and the St Louis Symphony was listed as one of the “Ten most important recordings of the decade” by Time Magazine. John Adams 2016-12-08T11:03:41-08:00.ABSOLUTE JEST
Its creation was for me a thrilling lesson in counterpoint, in thematic transformation and formal design. The “jest” of the title should be understood in terms of its Latin meaning, “gesta:” doings, deeds, exploits. I like to think of “jest” as indicating an exercising of one’s EL NIÑO - EARBOX - JOHN ADAMS El Niño (“the child”) follows the traditional narrative of the annuciation to Mary, the visit to Elizabeth, the birth and adoration of Jesus, Herod’s massacre of the innocents and the flight into Egypt. But, unlike Handel’s Messiah, which in most other respects is the obvious model, Adams’s treatment of text moves freely over along
CHAMBER SYMPHONY
John Adams on the Chamber Symphony. Written for 15 instruments and lasting 22 minutes, the Chamber Symphony bears a suspicious resemblance to its eponymous predecessor, the Opus 9 of Arnold Schoenberg. The choice of instruments is roughly the same as Schoenberg’s, although mine includes parts for synthesizer, percussion (a trap set), trumpet and trombone. MY FATHER KNEW CHARLES IVES John Adams on My Father Knew Charles Ives. The title, My Father Knew Charles Ives, may have been unconsicously suggested by that of a Morton Feldman of similarly challenged authenticity, I Met Heine on the Rue Fürstenberg.Carl Adams, my Massachusetts-born father, did not in fact know Charles Ives. But for a few years and only a little distance to the north, the two yankees might well have met EL DORADO - EARBOX - JOHN ADAMS John Adams on El Dorado. I meant the title El Dorado to be only partly ironic. The Spanish term itself, once mysteriously evocative, has become part of the banality of real-estate brochures and luxury automakers. But when first used in the New World by the Spanish explorers and missionaries it summoned an image of a virginal,untouched Eden, an
EROS PIANO - EARBOX - JOHN ADAMS John Adams on Eros Piano. Eros Piano is a quiet, dreamy soliloquy for piano, played against a soft, lush fabric of orchestral screens and clusters. It was a direct response on my part to a piece by Toru Takemitsu, riverrun, that I had heard in a performance by the English pianist Paul Crossley.I met Takemitsu once when he visited my home in Berkeley with his wife. GUIDE TO STRANGE PLACES Guide to Strange Places has been choreographed by Ashley Page for the San Francisco Ballet, and the Nonesuch release of a recording by David Robertson and the St Louis Symphony was listed as one of the “Ten most important recordings of the decade” by Time Magazine. John Adams 2016-12-08T11:03:41-08:00. MUST THE DEVIL HAVE ALL THE GOOD TUNES? Must the Devil Have All the Good Tunes? Commissioned by the Los Angeles Philharmonic as part of its 2018-19 Centennial season, the new piano concerto is a twenty five-minute work in three movements, played without pause. The orchestration, in addition to solo piano, includes bass guitar and a specially detuned “honky-tonk” piano.DOCTOR ATOMIC
It is the night of July 15, 1945. The scientists and Army soldiers have left Los Alamos, and are now at the Alamagordo detonation area on the desert floor, more than a hundred miles away. Women have been prohibited from the test site. Kitty and her Tewa Indian maid, Pasqualita, are sitting alone in the living room, drinking. JOHN'S BOOK OF ALLEGED DANCES The “Book” is a collection of ten dances, six of which are accompanied by a recorded percussion track made of prepared piano sounds. The prepared piano was, of course, the invention of John Cage, who first put erasers, nuts, bolts, and other damping objects in the the strings of the grand piano, thereby transforming it into a kind ofpygmy
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JOHN ADAMS TO RECEIVE ERASMUS PRIZE FOR 2019 The Erasmus Prize , one of Europe’s most prestigious cultural honors, will be awarded this year to John Adams. Adams will be only the third composer—and the first American composer—to be chosen in the Prize’s sixty-one-year history. The Prize is for “Notable contributions to European culture, society or social science,” and previous winners include film maker Ingmar Bergman, artist Marc Chagall, philosopher Martin Buber, actor Charlie Chaplin, anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss and composer Olivier Messiaen. The Prize of €150,000 will be presented by the King of The Netherlands to John Adams in November 2019. To mark the presentation of the Erasmus Prize, the Foundation is organizing a varied program of events related to the work of John Adams. Read the full announcement MUST THE DEVIL HAVE ALL THE GOOD TUNES? Pianist Yuja Wang premiered new piano concerto by John Adams on March 7, 2019 at Disney Hall the Los Angeles Philharmonic under Gustavo Dudamel followed by performances in Seoul and Tokyo. Adams says of the piece, “In the same way that I first encountered the name ‘Hallelujah Junction’ and knew that I had to write a piece with that title, when I saw the phrase ‘Must the Devil Have All the Good Tunes?’ I thought to myself, ‘that’s a good title just waiting for a piece.’ The phrase suggested a ‘Totentanz,’ only not of the Lisztian manner, but more of funk-invested Americanstyle.”
The concerto will be reprised by Dudamel and Wang at the Hollywood Bowl on July 25, and it will return to Disney Hall for two performances November 7 and 8, during which time the work will be recorded for commercial release. Next season Adams will conduct performances with the Seattle Symphony and the St Louis Symphony, both with
pianist Jeremy Denk, and in Paris and Amsterdam with pianist VikingurOlafsson
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More information about the Los Angeles premiere THE JOHN ADAMS EDITION RECORDED DURING JOHN ADAM’S 70TH BIRTHDAY YEAR IN THE 2016/17 SEASON, WHILE JOHN ADAMS WAS COMPOSER IN RESIDENCE AT THE BERLINPHILHARMONIKER
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The first recording of John Adams‘s 2005 opera, _Doctor Atomic_,
is out now on Nonesuch Records. Longtime Adams collaborator Peter Sellars created the libretto, drawing from original sources. The composer leads the BBC Singers and the BBC Symphony Orchestra in this recording, which features a cast led by Gerald Finley, who originated the role of Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer. More on Doctor Atomic Opera The Boston Globe described the work as having “the qualities of intelligence, craftsmanship, and quirkiness that have always marked the composer and his work; this time Adams also mingles virtuoso show with soul, popular appeal with the staying power that comes from intellectual interest,” More on Leila Josefowicz’ performance of Violin Concerto JOHN ADAMS—GREAT COMPOSERS WITH TOM SERVICEPUBLISHER
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