Alarm Will Sound | "Splitting Adams" - excerpts @alarmwillsound | Uploaded April 2017 | Updated October 2024, 55 minutes ago.
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"Splitting Adams" is a unique kind of performance that is inspired by podcasts. The live production combines music, recorded interviews with John Adams and others, as well as voices from the performers onstage. The show tells the story of two of the Pultizer Prize-winner’s seminal works: their creation and the struggle required to perform them.
John Adams built his career in the 1980s making unique and unmistakable music of pulsing sound masses for large ensembles. A 1992 commission for a one-of-each-instrument chamber ensemble forced him to fundamentally rethink his music and it was a combination of Schoenberg and old 1950s-era cartoons that guided him to a new way forward. The dense and manic Chamber Symphony that emerged shocked fans who thought they knew what to expect from Adams, and its ferocious challenges pushed performers to their limits. 15 years after writing the original Chamber Symphony, Adams composed a sequel, called "Son of Chamber Symphony," for Alarm Will Sound.
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iTunes: apple.co/2nVUL4G
Amazon: amzn.to/2oxnWLx
Google Play: goo.gl/vPDglV
Bandcamp: alarmwillsound.bandcamp.com/album/splitting-adams
"Splitting Adams" is a unique kind of performance that is inspired by podcasts. The live production combines music, recorded interviews with John Adams and others, as well as voices from the performers onstage. The show tells the story of two of the Pultizer Prize-winner’s seminal works: their creation and the struggle required to perform them.
John Adams built his career in the 1980s making unique and unmistakable music of pulsing sound masses for large ensembles. A 1992 commission for a one-of-each-instrument chamber ensemble forced him to fundamentally rethink his music and it was a combination of Schoenberg and old 1950s-era cartoons that guided him to a new way forward. The dense and manic Chamber Symphony that emerged shocked fans who thought they knew what to expect from Adams, and its ferocious challenges pushed performers to their limits. 15 years after writing the original Chamber Symphony, Adams composed a sequel, called "Son of Chamber Symphony," for Alarm Will Sound.
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