John Adams

[Jamtheguitarman]

Anyone here listen to the composer John Adams?

I just got "Naive and Sentimental Music" and absolutely LOVE it!!

Its rare to find something in this style i like so much after one or two listens, its just incredible.



So what other works should i get by him? im mainly interested in the orchestral stuff.

"on the transmigration of souls" seems to get great reviews but im generally not into that kind of operatic thing. I might check it out though.

[nikolas]

Nixon in China!

superb opera!

:)

[DallasComposer]

One of my top 2 most admired composers is Adams (the other is Ryuichi Sakamoto, besides the old masters of course)
NOTE - I wrote 'composer', not 'film composer'

I have, listen to and study ...

Harmonielehre, for orchestra

Concerto for Piano 'Century Rolls'

Slonimsky's Earbox

Lollapalooza

Short Ride in a Fast Machine, fanfare for orchestra

and some others


check out his site -
http://www.earbox.com/

and read his book -
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1574671324/002-5429246-0659229?%5Fencoding=UTF8&v=glance&n=283155

You can find his scores for purchase at -
http://www.sheetmusicplus.com/pages.html?cart=338607915229505240&target=smp_artbrowseresults.html%26style%3Dartist% 26artist%3DJohn%2520Adams&s=pages-www.google.com/search&e=/sheetmusic/artist/A/John_Adams.html&t=&k=&r=wwws-err5

[Andrew Sigler]

Hmmmm...


the 'Violin Concerto' and 'Gnarly Buttons' are the ones for me



cow samples anyone?

[stmiller]

Death of Klinghoffer. Very emotional story. Incredible music. Basically in a nut shell a man in a wheelchair is murdered by terrorists on a cruise ship during its hijacking. There is somewhat of a political controversy around the opera. Based on a true story.

[Jamtheguitarman]

I found the score to Naive and Sentimental music, yay!

http://www.boosey.com/pages/shop/product_detail.asp?id=924129&a=


Ive never bought a score before, is it worth it?


How detailed is it? the description is pretty vague.


i guess its the same as this one on the american site, http://www.sheetmusicplus.com/store/smp_detail.html?cart=338607915229505240&type=rec&item=8060556
cow samples anyone?

I love the pitched cow bells in N&S!



One of my top 2 most admired composers is Adams (the other is Ryuichi Sakamoto, besides the old masters of course)
NOTE - I wrote 'composer', not 'film composer'

I have, listen to and study ...

Harmonielehre, for orchestra

Concerto for Piano 'Century Rolls'

Slonimsky's Earbox

Lollapalooza

Short Ride in a Fast Machine, fanfare for orchestra

and some others

thanks for the links, he has a great website.

Is the book any good?

[luima]

You have forgotten "Harmonium" a two parts piece: "Negative love" and "Because I can not stop for Death" based on an Emily Dickinson poem.
Pure poetry....
I has been selected by S. Simon Rattle ( BTW really not my fvourite conductor, but specialized in contemporay) as one of the best works of the XX century.

[dcoscina]

i met him after a concert he gave in Detroit a few years back (actually 2000). Very nice man. He spoke with me about music for 10 minutes after the concert.:cool:

[OzGaijin]

"Common Tones in Simple Time". People call it minimalist, but to me it sounds as much like impressionism as music can. Kinda like Monet, via orchestra.
And the final (3rd, I think?) mvt of "Harmonielehre" is a knockout. The sort of piece i'd give my left nut to hear live.

[Jamtheguitarman]

I just got a CD with;

1: short ride in a fast machine
2: the chairman dances
3: Harmonium


I like what i hear with Harmonium so far, its going to be a grower i think.

The other two piece havnt really hit me, but ill give them more listens.

[danpowers]

I'll add "Shaker Loops" for string septet or string orchestra to the recommended list. It's a relatively early piece, but one of my favorites among his works.